NEW ZEALAND TIMBER.
AUSTRALIAN DUTIES
(Received 2, 9.55 a.m.) Sydney, December 2. In introducing the tariff amendments Mr. Tudor stated that beyond allowing the importation of. New Zealand white pine in certain sizes free, there was no alteration in the timber duties. It does, however, raise the tariff of kauri by tiic deletion of subitem (b), item 303, which read: “New Zealand pine,.padreused, sixpence per hundred superficial feet”; and the substitution of an item dealing only with white pine for batter boxes.'This throws other New Zealand pine into sub-item (d) timber—undressed, half a ; crown, per hundred. Merchants had raised the prices of (New Zealand timber other- than white pine (half inch) by ashilling per hundred superficial feet, three-quarter inch eightpence, and inch and over two shillings.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 93, 2 December 1911, Page 6
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