RISE IN PRICE OF TIMBER TO BE SOUGHT
An immediate application for permission to increase the price of timber will follow the Arbitration Court’s amendment of the wages scale in the sawmilling industry. It was stated today by the chairman of the West Coast Sawmillers’ Association, Mr A.. L. McKay, that it was impossible for the millers, on present margins, to absorb the increase in wages and as soon as details of the award amendment had been received and'the increased cost to the industry had been computed, an application would be made for a rise in the price of timber. Quite apart from the new award amendments, a survey of the industry throughout the dominion is at present being undertaken by the Sawmillers’ Federation, with the object of submitting facts and figures to the Price Investigation Tribunal, in support of an application for re-’ vision of the, approved prices for timber in both Islands.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 November 1947, Page 4
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