AUSTRALIAN USE OF PINE
High Costs A Deterrent
“The Press” Special Service ROTORUA, December 9. High costs .seemed likely to preverit Australia buying large quantities of New Zealand radiata pine for housing construction, Mr W. S. Lowe, the leader of an Australian trade mission, said in Rotorua. Australian native hardwood cost 30 per cent, less than New Zealand radiata and was firmly established as the basic timber for housing, he said. Import duties and high transport costs put the imported timber in a fairly poor competitive position. "There are no regulations against the use of radiata pine in buildings, but you have to convince architects and designers that it is a suitable material,” he said. The New Zealand product has also to Compete against Austral an-grown pine and American oregon.
Mr Rowe, who is attached to the industries division of the Australian Department of Trade, was accompanied by four construction and building engineers. The party, which spent two weeks in New Zealand, examined the possibilities of greater trade in New Zealand pine products and Australian heavy machinery.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28765, 10 December 1958, Page 14
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