BUILDERS' CONFERENCE.
Third Day—Thursday. The annual conference of the New- Zealand Federated Builders' Association was continued this morning. —Freights on Timber.— Mr J. H. Maynard (Canterbury) introduced a remit "that further efforts be made to secure a reduction of the' railway freights on foreign timbers and other building materials." Mr Frank Wilkinson, in seconding, said that, in his opinion, there were great incongruities in the tariff, and sometimes the cost of freight on building materials necessary for' construction was nearly a 6 much as the goods themselves. The "dutv on foreign timbers was a great tax on the farmer and the country resident. Timber already paid an import duty on entering the country, and the farmer" was asked to pay another duty in the way of extra railway freight. Since the framing of the Tailway tariff in days long par-t, a variety of new materials had been invented, and because these materials were classified the charge was based on the highest rates, amounting in some cases to 33 per cant, more than similar materials in a different form. the remit was carried. —ln Committee.— In committee the conference discussed the Wages Protection and Contractor' Lien Act.
_ At 11 o'clock the party left on an excursion to Wairongoa.
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Evening Star, Issue 15020, 31 October 1912, Page 6
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