THE TIMBER INDUSTRY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19841, 16 May 1927, Page 9

THE TIMBER INDUSTRY

GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER. (Special to “Chronicle.”) AUCKLAND, May 14. A close inquiry is being made by the Government as to the best means of affording assistance to the timber industry, and in the course of a week or so, we should have before us recommendations concerning suggested amendments of the timber regulations, having as their object the fostering of the use of local timbers. This statement was made to-day by the Primo Minister. The sub-commit-tee consisting of representatives of the Valuation, Public Works, Industries and Commerce and Forestry Departments, which had been appointed last month to investigate the position, had met representatives of the sawmillers, he went on, and it was now preparing recommendations as to the possibility of more extensive use of ordinary building timber by the State Advances, Public Works, and other Government Departments. Mr Coates mentioned that the Tariff Commission would also make inquiries, and no doubt it would submit recommendations as to what could bo done to help the milling industry through the medium of the Customs Department.

“From the information thus made available,” Mr Coates added, “the Government will be able to decide whether tho regulations should be amended, and in what direction. Possibly, also, we may be able to suggest methods to tho sawmillers which thoy may help themselves.”