INCREASE IN TIMBER PRICES
[BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION."; > I 1 PALMERSTON NORTH. Wednesday. The executive of the Timber Merchants' Federation, representative of all the timber merchants- in the North Island, passed a resolution to-day objecting to the recent advance in the price of timber imposed by the Main Trunk millers While it recognised that the charges for special lengths were somewhat - justified by the continued shortage of labour, the meeting was of opinion that the rise, folB lowing so closely on several previous ads j varices, was not in the best interests of r the trade generally, and must tend to x antagonise a large section of the public
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16697, 15 November 1917, Page 4
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109INCREASE IN TIMBER PRICES New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16697, 15 November 1917, Page 4
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