TIMBER FOR DUNNAGE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1931, Page 11

TIMBER FOR DUNNAGE

NEW ZEALAND OR

FOREIGN ?

(By Telegraph.*—Press Association.) INVEUCAKGiLL, 12tli October. Deeming to-duy to be- a suitable occasion on account of there being three, large overseas steamers in port, Messrs. D. J. Wcsney and W. Grieve, members of the Shipping Committee of the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce, paid a visit Lo Bluff in an attempt to disprove the shipping companies' statement that it was only on isolated occasions that foreign timber was being used [or dunnage. They visited all throe overseas boats, the Taruuaki, Cornwall, and Tongariro, and in each ease discovered foreign timber. Some of it had been previously used, and was stored aboard for dunnage. On the Tarannki New Zealand timber was being usred tor the purpose, but reposing in the vessel's 'tween decks was a large iinantity of spruce, which it was stated was not suitable for the class of cargo the Tnranaki was using. 'To-day's investigations incline us to the belief that the practice is becoming very prevalent," eaid JMr. Wcsney, "and that united action must, he taken throughout, the country lo safeguard our timber industry."