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Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1923, Page 2

As a means to remedy tho matter, it is not too much to ask the Government to treat the export of red pine u.s white pine export is permitted. There is an enormous range of rimu forest in Westland, and if the export of red pine wero permitted so long as Dominion requirements wero met at reasonable prices, justice would be thine to the millers, the workers and tho present generation. To starve the present generation inckistuiußy that there might be amide supplies of timber for the unborn millions, is an economic wrong which the people ol today have no right to suiter. The whole trend of the regulations is to upset- the law of supply and demand, the very foundation of trade and industry, and such artificial means will rarely react on the community at large. 'I hoy will suffer a. serious dis—sorvice in the end by the loss of trade and industry arising from the restrictions. It scents to us the whole trend of the policy is against common sense. That has been our impression from the outset, as lias Ihicii made manifest by our opposition to the policy when it was first declared, and consistent opposition over since.