NEW ZEALAND TIMBER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17268, 18 September 1919, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND TIMBER.

EXPORTS TO AUSTRALIA. iSKUIOI'KNKSS Oh" POSITION. 'I'll-' effect "f th.. exportation of timber from New Zealand was discussed by the president of tin' Auckland Employers' \siiu iation. Mr.* Albert Spencer, .it the : annual meeting of that body yesterday aft.ii 11. lie -aid that timber was fast ; disappearing across (lie water every week. 'South and north ships were loading up to ' fulfil orders from Australia. Merchants i ..ii the othei s.de who knew the value of i New Zealand timber far better than New • Ziaianilt'i-.- appreciated it. themselves, had , Im.iimli) lip the » hole of the output of some I null.-, and in r-ome ca."S the standing | timber also. i Immediate steps should lip taken to , check 11) i- exploiting of the Dominion's ■natural resources, and the depleting of it,« limbei , >ci urgently requiifd for building . lioii-iv. and its whde pine, so vital to the . I,utter industries. The latter, tin- only ■ timber ,-uited for hutti-i bov\-, was being sent away in hue,, quantities. In the •south some of the Irishes had been bought : outright. ' The ..lily remedy he could see «as to , place a heavy e.\)iort duty on all timber ! that left» New Zealand, and allow all im i p..i led limber to <•■ ■m*- % free. | , *