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WOODEN SHIPS. WASHINGTON, September 12. The Shipping Board has disposed what has heretofore been for long con- *' C sidered a white elephant on the Government’s hands. The board has sold 226 wooden vessels that were built during the war. The sale is to a private concern, which pays $750,000 for the lot. They liad cost $700,000 each. They were constructed hurriedly by America, to rush her shipments of troops and supplies to Europe when tho United "States entered the waf*.
STIFF AVOOL DUTIES. AVASHINGTON. Sept i2. The U.S.A. Tariff Bill has been returned to the House by a. conference which accounted tile foreign- valuation basis. Excepting in a few specified instances the wool rate (but not greasy or wasliod) has been reduced to 31 cents per pound, being two cents lower than the Senate figure, but fi.,_ , - cents higher than the House’s figures. Tlio scoured wool is 31 cents per lb:
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1922, Page 2
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159AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1922, Page 2
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