FOREIGN TIMBERS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11326, 2 October 1930, Page 5

FOREIGN TIMBERS

BIG SHIPMENT OF OREGON PTNE AND REDWOOD-

MERCHANTS' REPLY TO COMMENT:

BUILDERS AND ARCHITECTS WANT THERE WOOLS.

(Social To- The Times). AUCKLAND. Od. 1

The plea for a ban ou foreign limber lias been beard again this week since On* arrival of the Golden Cloud from Los -Angeles with J .51J0,000 feet‘of Oregon pine ami lodwOod. It- is asserted Ilia I this one shipment will deprive 45 men of one year’s work.

Main - employers and employees in the timber industry view with' disapproval tlie continued’ flooding of the New Zealuud markets with sawn Limber of foreign ( Vigiii, but niCreliaiifs who arc import in' 1 ,', cleelare that t-hey ha ve to carry si deles of Oregon and redwood because builders demand Ji. and arehitocts '-how a preference for it for certain (lasses of work- jn ndditiou; they argue that their nuporta Lions fife ‘necessary to keep the prices of local v.oods at a reasonable level. . . It was thought that the reoe.nr increases)" in the duties cm timber from overseas would place a. decided ebook on importations and assist to roiuc the timber industry, which has gone from bad to "Worse in roecjit ,vea-i s, but it is vet cafly to judge justiylmt .the effect of the new tariff will be. Then again, some 'merchants are bound to continue importing nivler contracts, 'which do not expire until the end of the p-resent 3’ear.