TIMBER INDUSTRY
BIG MARKET IN AUSTRALIA. BRIGHT PROSPECTS FOR NEW ZEALAND. (Per United Press Association.) Christchurch, December 16. As the result of a visit to Australia Mr D. Reese, chairman of the West Coast Sawmillers’ Association, says he is able to report to sawmilling associations that a big market in Australia is open to them which with proper care and attention can be maintained against all foreign competition and be made profitable to sawmillers who export and timber merchants who import on the other side. Recently Australia took the primage duty off rimu as well as the sales tax and this gives our timber an increasingly advantageous position in competing with other imported timbers.
Although almost the whole of the rimu exported to Australia went from Westport and Greymouth, said Mr Reese, the development of Australian trade would have a very beneficial effect on sawmillers in the North Island and Southland, for at the present moment there was undue pressure from the West Coast on Wellington and other North Island portions as well as Dunedin. Already there were sign of greater activity in the export market.
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Southland Times, Issue 22200, 18 December 1933, Page 7
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