IMPORTED DOORS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 131, 1 December 1930, Page 8

IMPORTED DOORS

QUESTION OF QUALITY

'[ Beferring to the article published in ! "The Post" last week about imported , doors competing with the locally-made, a leading door manufacturer in Wei-. ' lington showed a representative of I "The Post" locally-made rimu doors I and doors of Oregon imported from Canada. The manufacturer pointed out that ' Canadian-made Oregon doors were good : and not cheapo and were infinitely su- . pcrior to those mado in the United States. Oregon, ho said, did not shrink 1 or buckle as rimu was inclined to do. A clean rimu door, as a matter of fact, ■ was a little cheaper than the Canadian, . yet many people preferred the latter, owing to its quality. Duty and freight on tho Canadian article added over 1 eight shillings to tho cost, and this, r he thought, was high enough protection, r To add to tho duty on Candian doors j would only increase the cost of building, which was too high as it was. At ' (lie present time about 1000 Canadian j doors a month wore coining into the 2 country, compared >with live or six , times that, number not long ago. He expressed the opinion that it would be to let well alone than to juggle 3 fiEurthei; jrith ;thj£;fcirnber./ta,rifl£-