IS THIS FAIR?

NZ Truth, Issue 1081, 19 August 1926, Page 1

IS THIS FAIR?

"Truth's" Managing Editor on Tour.) AT Rotorua^the Government is building a second storey to the bowling pavilion. | In this work they are* using; 12 by 2 -(Oregon joists, which have been brought down from Auckland after having been imported x into the country. - 1 Yet twelve miles from Rptorua, at Mamaku, there is a State sawmill* which could easily have supplied New Zealand timber — heart rimu — suitable for this work. The State factory and mill at Frankton Junction, where there are. heavy stocks of timber m the yards, could also have /supplied heart rimu, whilst had the Government desired to purchase this timber ,from outsiders they could easily have ob- ' tamed it from one. of the private mills operating around ■ Rotorua. Did we hear you state, Mr.' Coates, that you* are giving preference W New Zealand-made goods? Were we dreaming when we imagined that we saw stamped on the letters we received through the post a slogan to buy New Zealand-made goods? iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii minimi! m mi iii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiii Minium hi urn