TIMBER INDUSTRY.
AIJSTR ALI A’S POSITION. STRONG OVERSEAS COMPETITION. BY CABLE—PRESa ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Jan. 22, 12.55 p.m. MELBOURNE,, Jan. 22. Giving evidence before the Tariff Board, which is investigating requests that duty on timber imported to Australia should be increased Mr Moore, secretary of the Australian Timber Tariff Protection Executive, said that in 1913 the .quantity of timber produced in Australia was 683,089,(XX) super feet, but in 1922 the quantity was oniy 587,441,000 super feet. The decreased production was due to keen oversea, competition, in consequence oi which a number of mills had gone out of operation. Australian hardwood timbers had for tile same reason been reduced in price from 21s to, 19s per hundred super feet. Oversea competitors had many advantages. In most foreign timber production countries logs were transported by floating them down rivers, and water was available as power from the mills. Practically all timber in Australia had to be transported by rail oi boat.
Comparing the difference in labour conditions, ill* Moore said that the actual wage in the lumber industry in Canada was 25s .for a week of 58hours; in the United State sit was 40s for a week of 574 hours; in Sweden it was 7s 7d per day, while in Australia tlie minimum was £8 3s for 48 hours.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 January 1925, Page 7
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