ALLEGED DUMPING
TIMBER FOR CASES AND BOXES
QUEENSLAND INDUSTRY ASKS FOR DUTY. .
(ONIIID PRBSS ASSOCIAMON.—COPWIIOHT.) (Received June 9, 11 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. A deputation representing the Queensland Timber Protection League asked the Tariff Board to increase the duty on case timber and timber cut to sizes for making, boxes. A witness stated that American companies were dumping timber into Australia at a loss of twenty per cent. If relief was not granted the case mills would be compelled to close. The deputation later saw Mr. Hughes, who agreed that a strong case had been made out. He urged that all the facts should be supplied to the board, on whose recommendation alterations would be effected without delay.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1922, Page 7
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118ALLEGED DUMPING Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1922, Page 7
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