TIMBER INDUSTRY.
The secretary of the New Zealand Timber AYovkers’ Federation. Mr F. L. Turley, recently sent the following telegram to Hon. AY. F. Massey: — “ Prime Alinister, Wellington : Timber industry all over New Zealand in bad state through huge importations of foreign timber. If something is not done at once to either place heavy duty on foreign timbers, or allow export freely of local timbers to Australia, then unemployment on a large scale- will result. Next month will sec two hundred timber workers out of work Oil West Coast alone, and understand Southland similarly affected. We ask as our rights that Government do something at to put right this state of affairs, which is due entirely to the Government’s policy of blocking exports on the one lmiul, and. on the other allowing foieign timbers to conic into the country almost free of duty, a policy which must prove ruinous to any industry. There ure six thousand timber workers in New Zealand, and they certainly have some right as workers. Hie ,ibo\c policy is also ruinous to railways as ivoll.—(Signed) F. Turley, Secretary New Zealand Timber Workers’ 1' ederation.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1925, Page 1
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188TIMBER INDUSTRY. Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1925, Page 1
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