TIMBER INDUSTRY.
HIGH PROTECTIVE TARIFF WANTED. FORESTRY DEPARTMENT CRITICISED.. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) HOKITIKA, March 3. At a. representative meeting of citizens last evening, a branch of the Nerv Zealand Timber Industry Advancement Eeague was formed. Mr. G. A. Perry presided. It was decided to send a telegram to the Prime Minister, asking for a high, protective tariff on foreign timber, also pointing out that the lack of employment among timber workers was seriously felt, reflecting also seriously on local trade. One speaker remarked that .restrictive regulations prohibiting the export to Australia had killed the, overseas market, which the millers had built up at great cost. While prohibiting export, the Government had built up an expensive department which was trying to grow timber which would never be of the value of local timber here to-day, which was being ruthlessly destroyed beoasue the Government restrictions had killed export trade. _ This position was realised by the meeting and it was stated tlVat the attitude of the Forestry Department was to force up royalties without helping the miller and aggravating the offence by still allowing foreign timbers to come jn to the exclusion ami waste of a large proportion of the New Zealand forest.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 8 March 1927, Page 9
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201TIMBER INDUSTRY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 8 March 1927, Page 9
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