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BIG SHIPMENT TO AUSTRALIA STORM OF PROTEST AROUSED FEDERAL INVESTIGATION BEGINS By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 10.2 J p.m. Sydney, June 18. A storm of protest has arisen in regard to the arrival of a huge shipment of timber from a Russian port, the Sydney portion of which was sold before the arrival of the ship. The bill of lading discloses 880,000 superficial feet of cedar, which if intended for furniture manufacture will compete with Queensland maple and silky oak and if for boxwood will compete with New Zealand pine. The shipment is regarded by merchants as a feeler to test the Australian market. The Timber Merchants’ Association has appealed to the Govcrninci-t to ‘arrest the dumping of Soviet slave-pro-duced timber” on the ground that locally milled timber is unable to compete with it.
The Federal authorities are now making inquiries.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1931, Page 9
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