IMPORTED TIMBER

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1930, Page 10

IMPORTED TIMBER

PREFERENCE TO CANADA

WILL NEW ZEALAND GIVE IT?

' (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.'?) '/ DUNEDIN, This Day. Latest adyices iby mail from Vancouver to Dunedin prove that the British Columbia lumbermen who recently toured Australia^ and New Zealand are very promptly and actively pushing their argument that it would pay the v three parties if some stablo arrangement regarding tariffs were brought abput so as to increase the exporting of timber from Canada to British States in the Southern Hemisphere. '

On Bth -April the delegates were at Ottawa asking the Government to (Jail an economic conference amongst the British- countries of the Pacific as a preliminary to' the. development of mutual merchandising possibilities, and it was suggested that ■ the delegates would i also, plead "for the appointment of an expert British Columbia lumber commissioner in the Antipodes, that lieing deemed wise as a first step whilst the, politicians argue about tariff mat-" ters. .-,■•' , ■ ■ ■ " ■' :i- ' • ■■ As'far as can be gathered'from the published reports of J;he interview with the Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce, (the Hon. James Aw Malcolm); the delegation was likely to get an attentive- hearing in Parliament.

Mr. Malcolm said that his Government was ready to negotiate a coiu-pleto-exchangc of preferences with Australia and New-Zealand.

It scents to be taken for granted by Canadians that New Zealand will ultimately give preference to Canadian as against JJnited States lumber.