BUILDING AND FURNITURE WOODS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21995, 3 July 1933, Page 15

BUILDING AND FURNITURE WOODS

LARGER IMPORTS AND CONSUMPTION For tno next month at least (writes a correspondent in The Times Trade and Engineering Supplement of May 20) there is no danger of this country being caught short of housing timbers as the result of the embargo on Russian wood, for the Board of Trade returns show a much larger total import last month than in April of the past two years, while for the four months this year 534,781 loads (of 50 cu. ft) arrived, against 434.000 loads for the similar period of last year and 459,700 loads in January-April, 1931. Finland ami Poland are helping to augment supplies, and Canadian arrivals have more than doubled those of January-April for the past two years. But even with the larger importation (his year London dock stocks are comparatively low, while, on the other hand, the deliveries from the docks last month were much more favourable compared with April last year. Last month's imports of plywood were a little below those of the general average for the past four mouths. The total for the latter was 2,477,573 cubic feet, of which Russia supplied 1,067,761 cubic feet. Of course, Soviet plywood is now under the embargo, but there seems to be a sufficiency of imported plywood generally on this market, plus home manufactures. to meet present and early future requirements. Ip London docks stocks of plywood on May 1 amounted to 36,238 tons,* against only 19,761 tons last year. April deliveries, according to the P.L.A. stock and delivery statistics, totalled 4804 tons, against 3976 tons the previous year.