GENERAL CABLES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 12 August 1914, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES

DUTY ON TIMBER

8T CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPT EIGHT

(Received Aug. 11, 12.30 p.m.1) SYDNEY, Aug. 11. At the inter-State Commission, tho President stated that saw millers and others had suggested that the same duties should bo imposed on New Zealand timbers as New Zealand imposed on Queensland timbers. On the other hand applications had been received in favor of deduction or abolition <af the duties on v hite pine for butter Boxes and kauri for brushwork. A representative of the Sawmillers' Association asked for an increase on New Zealand timber by size. Another witness favored white pine, undressed, being admitted free.