TIMBER PRICE RISE UNLIKELY TO AFFECT COST OF HOUSING
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The increase in the price of timber granted to sawmillers by the decision of the Price Tribunal last week would make little difference to the alreadv high cost of building, according to "Mr S. G. Shearer? president of the New Zealand Master Builders’ Federation. Mr Shearer said builders would await with particular interest the new price lists for millers and merchants which the tribunal had announced it would issue. These lists were expected to remove anomalies and have the effect of making more readily available those sizes of timber most heavily’ in demand.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1948, Page 5
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