TIMBER TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 112, 15 May 1939, Page 9

TIMBER TRADE.

GERMANY AND RUMANIA. ' Independent Cable Service. LONDON, May 14. The first agreement implementing the German-Rumanian trade treaty, signed on Friday in Bucharest, provides that Germany will build new forest roads and provide the necessary transport for timber, and plan, establish and equip factories for the mechanical and chemical processing of wood. Rumania agrees to increase her timber exports to Germany.

The British trade mission headed by Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, has arrived at Athens for trade talks with the Greek Government.

AIR AND SEA.

NEW SERVICES SUGGESTED. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, May 14. The text of the British-Rumanian protocol on economic and commercial relations, the substance of which was announced on Friday by the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Oliver Stanley, has been published. Among secondary points not touched upon is an agreement to examine the question of establishing direct air and shipping services between Britain and Rumania.

JEWS AROUSED.

STATUS IN PALESTINE. Independent Cable Service. LONDON, May 14. In presiding at the annual conference of the Zionist Federation of tireat Britain and Ireland, the Rev. .1. K. (ioldbloom said the lio\ eminent'* forthcoming 'White Paper on Palestine would propone to relejrale l'ulfi-tinc Jews to the status of a permanent minority at the mercy of the Arab majority. "We solemnly declare, as representatives of the Zionist organisation and as loyal British citizens, that we will this fundamental abrogation of our rights with every legal means at our disposal," said Mr. Goldbloom.