THE PRICE OF TIMBER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 86, 12 April 1911, Page 4

THE PRICE OF TIMBER.

TO iHS EWIOIt. Sir, — Ro letter from Wellington Timber Merchants' Association: In my opinion | the action of the association in quoting v single price for a certnin clasa oi timber during a year like 1208 and the pie^ent day is an inE'.ilt to the intelligence of ibc communitj'. Will they cvsn deny ih t v certain elpsscs of rinm have not lately ■ 1-it.e 1 in price? Will they dei'y tlvi, matai has not risen in pr:ce? Ako v>iil they deny that the builders are piv-cti-I eally forced to buy their tiruhci from this combine? I-> it not a fact thc<t eomo builders halve been very drastically tLOiited if they got timber elsewhers? ">\"ili tiny oho deny that much of the tiiiibsr new beih^ supplied ib much infei'ior in quality to what n used >to beY I will »Lo usk the 'vritcv if he personally supsrvics ihu rimbcr sent out of tho yards, and if ai>yilnng extrr is charged for the bark on iiio timber and the holes in it? As much of iho timber sent out is very green, I would like him to assure me that there ij no danger of it to king root and growing, ay I have no_ desire to wake up in the morning and lind myself on tho top of a rimii tree after the style of "Jack on the Beaustalk." Let mo tell his associotion and the rest of tho citizens that one ox tho main reasons for my coming' oui, rs to prevent my native land becoming a "trustridden" country liko the United Slat-o of America. At last election ex-Prc«idcnr Roosevelt tell fighth^g- tho monopolies and trusts tho I oppi-essod^his countrymen, und I am not afrpid to ioilou in Mj footsteps, and [ only hope I have not too iate. — I am, etc., i{. Ji CAMERON. Wellington, 12th April, 1911.