RAMP ALLEGED IN TIMBER INDUSTRY IN AUSTRALIA
Recd. 9 p.m. Sydney, Jan. 21 “A Royal Commission should be established immediately to investigate black-marketing of the timber firms, because politicians and public servants are seriously involved in the ramp,’ declared the president of the Master Builders' Association (Mr. C. G. E. Paynter) to-day. He added that black market timber yards were stocked with thousands of superfeet, while legitimate timber merchants were unable to get stocks. Illegal increases were stated as £5O for a cottage and £2OO for a block of flats.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 22 January 1947, Page 5
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