THE TIMBER, INDUSTRY
BALTIC IMPORTATIONS. EFFECT ON WHITE PINE TRADE. A serious position will shortly have to be faced in the timber industry in New Zealand because of the importation of foreign timbers into this country. It is rumoured that Baltic spruce, for the making of butter boxes, to the equivalent of 380,000 boxes has been lately landed, and as local timber merchants are already finding it hard to obtain a market for white pine, it would appear that there is some truth in the story. Owing to the much lower wages scale and cost of production in Norway and Sweden, timber can be landed in New Zealand from these countries and sold at a price that is prohibitive to New Zealand millers and unless some restriction is placed on the importation of this timber, it will mean, according to a local authority, either the reduction of wages for New Zealand timber-workers or the closing down of many white pine mills.
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Southland Times, Issue 19291, 9 July 1924, Page 5
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161THE TIMBER, INDUSTRY Southland Times, Issue 19291, 9 July 1924, Page 5
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