CANADIAN LUMBER.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17605, 9 January 1929, Page 7

CANADIAN LUMBER.

TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA. INSUFFICIENT TRANSPORT SPACE. NEW SHIPPING LINE ADVOCATED. (By Telegraph—Press AS3n.—Copyright.); (Australian Press Association). _ (Received Jan. 9, 10 a.m.) t VANCOUVER, Jan. 8. Claiming that they have never been s able to get any space for lumber shipments of any size on the Union Steamship Company’s vessels to New Zea- / land and Australia, as that company has taken little interest in the lumber -f ■■ trade to the Antipodes, the Associated Timber Exporters of British Columbia met and flatly denied the statements of Mr J. C. irons, the Vancouver manager of the company, that space is available. All the leading exporters, with one exception, attended, and unanimously asserted that the company during its operations for 30 years has specialised in passengers, mail, and general cargo and had consistently treated lumber as a step-child. It had declined to handle lumber at all during certain months, claiming that no space was available. Lumber shipments on tho company’s vessels for the last, two years only amounted to 5 per cent, of the cargoes. Under the circumstances the lumbermen claim that they have been forced to petition the Government to subsidise a new freight service to Australia direct as the company’s ships first call is at New Zealand ports.