SALE 0F TIMBER
CONTROLLED BY HOARD OF TRADE.
New regulations have been gazetted empowering the Board of Trade to control the sale of timber. Prices are to be according to lists issued by the Board or in certain districts according to lists issued by specified sawmillers’ associations. The Board is authorised to issue, licenses, subject to conditions, to persons to carry on business as timber merchants.
No person other than a sawmiller or a person licensed as a timber merchant, shall, after two months from date, sell sawn timber (rimu, matai, totara, kahikatea, and kauri) in excess of 500 superficial feet in the aggregate in any one year without the prior approval of the Board of Trade.
No timber produced from indigenous trees shall be sold oY offered 'tor sale by public auction save with the written authority of the Board of Trade.
Th t . Board of Trade may, with the prior approval of the Minister m Charge of the Timber Regulations by resolution exempt from the operation of the Order in Council any kinds or classes of timber.
It is an offence for any person to offer or give for the various grades of rimu, matai, totara, kahikatea, or kauri prices in excess of those fixed by the Order in Council. This does not apply to sales in pursuant of contracts in writing entered into prior to the date of the regulations provided that certified copies of the contracts are filed wit’ the Board of Trade within thirty days.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 March 1921, Page 1
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250SALE 0F TIMBER Hokitika Guardian, 30 March 1921, Page 1
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