TIMBER COMMISSION.
[BT TKIJIGBAPH."?aiSB ASSOCIATION.} AUCKLAND, This Day. At the sitting of the Timber Commission to-day, Herman Coupe, manager of the Taupo-Totara Sawmilling Company, said he did not think good would result from an export duty on kauri and white pine. It was held by the timber industry that a protective import tax on foreign timber of Is per 100 ft would only increase the cost of a cottage by £8. Conservation of the bush m face of advancing settlement was impossible. If the import duty on pine was not increased, many sawmills would be closed. Competition would be keener, and prices would, advance. There should be no free importation at all, not even of logs.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1909, Page 8
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116TIMBER COMMISSION. Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1909, Page 8
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