MORE EMPLOYMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 191, 14 August 1930, Page 8

MORE EMPLOYMENT.

TIMBER DUTIES' EFFECT. CHEAP HOUSES WILL NOT BE ■.\ -DEARER. - : '-K -;.. : j MERCHANT'S CONCLUSION. ..(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, Wednesday. "Although we have not received all we asked for, the New' Zealand sawmillers will be satisfied with' the increased duties/' said Mr. Brent, chairman of the Dunedin Timber Merchants' Association. He was certain that the. new duties would have the effect of giving more, employment in the Dominion. In Southland, said Mr. Brent, the .production of 1,000,000 feet of timber "gave work to 24 men for a year. >If the duties prevented timber from being imported every million feet of timber kept out of the country would result in livings being provided for 24 families. That would give some idea of the value of the protection now being given by the Government, the higher duties would not stop, but they would curtail importations. "I am certain that protection will give more employment to labour," said MrQ Brent, "and the new duties, which' will cause red pine to be used instead Of Oregon flooring and lining, will not have the effect of increasing the cost of the working man's house. The man who builds a palatial home with oak panellings and expensive tiriibers is usually-well able to afford the cost, which will now be increased for him."