High Timber Prices
GOVERNMENT TO BE ABFRO ACHED.
The prices ruling for building timber was viewed with alarm by the annual conference of the N.Z. Builders’ Federation which met in Palmerston North yesterday. Mr W. P. Glue (Christchurch) directed attention to the annual report of the State Forest service which showed that while the production of roughsawn timber in New Zealand for 1931 was over 197 miLlion feet, it had risen in 1935 to 243 million feet and in 193 G to 293 million feet. These figures revealed an increase in production of 67 per cent' and in spite of that, in Canterbury prices had gone up 20 per cent. Mr V. A. Coyle (Auckland) thought the Conference should write the saw millers expressing concern at the rise in timber prices which had a direct bearing on building costs. Many jobs had been set aside because of the tremendous rise.
Mr J. H. Meyer (Wellington) thought the increase in production was du} to the number of new mills opperating but Mr Glue answered this contention by pointing to the State Forest report which showed that at March 31, 1937, the number of mills was 594 which was two less than the previous year.
A suggestion that the best way to meet the situation was to ask the Government to reduce the tariff on imported timber such as redwood and oregan pine, met with conference approval.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 41, 18 February 1938, Page 6
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