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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9068, 20 April 1908, Page 5

A farmer on the outskirts of the Tinwald district, Canterbury, reported having just sold a line of 1,212 bushels of Tuscan wheat, on trucks, at Winslow, at 4s 5d per bushel. An Australian corporation has, says the "New York Sun," secured a concession from the Russian Government to take out 30,000,000 feet of timber a year from a forest in Siberia, 900 miles from Vladivostok, to be delivered in Melbourne, Australia, approximately 8,000 miles away. The entire year's cut will have to be shipped in July, August, September, and October, the only months of "open water" at the point of shipment. Unmanufactured timber is admitted into Australia free of duty, while the duty on lumber is nearly five dollars a thousand feet. At Melbourne a new mill is being erected to manufacture the stock. Bluff fishermen in all branches of the pursuit are most anxious that the conditions of the trade as between New Zealand and Australia should be reconsidered. The tariff charges exacted by the latter stand nominally at IJd per lb. Exacted on the smoked 'article, of which the largest proportion of New Zealand fish consists, the rate increases to something like 30 per cent, on the market value: 1 . The result is that in, say, Melbourne, Nov/ Zealand fish is, comparatively speaking, an expensive luxury, which only the more affluent can afford. What the fishermen say is that, if the duty were remitted, the trade of the Australian States alone would double itself twice over, and that New Zealand waters are quite abie to meet such an increased demand. The qucs-1 tion then is: Could New Zealand not find reciprocity that would counterbalance this exaction and assist a trade capable of such enormous expansion? A cold in the nosn, as you'll suppose, li a tumble nuisimce, -■ooaiu-.-v-i norwj But Wood's Great Peppermint Oure'd a friend Whose kindly aid will always lend! You niiiy bo sure When colds endure Tlvj case requires a truatm."ut never— Then send for Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 7