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NO DEMAND IN AUSTRALIA. (Auckland Star.) “The slogan, ‘New Zealand timber for New Zealanders,’ which was introduced by Sir Francis Dillon Bell, lias had the effect of cutting off supplies of our timber on the Auckland market,” said Mr. W. B. Leyland on returning by the Manama to Auckland, lifter a visit to New South Wales and Queensland. Even through the embargo had lieen raised, Mr. Leyland remarked, it was now difficult to get the Australian market back, because in the. meantime buyers in that country had gone to the Baltic, Canada, and the United States for their supplies. This was a matter that concerned the South Island and the West Coast in particular.
Mr. Leyland said that he had seen Queensland kauris in the course of his travels. One very fine specimen was of 33ft girth, and of considerable height. Millers said that the Queensland kauri did not make nearly such good timber as tliq New Zealand kauri. The trees grew more or less in isolation, and there were no kauri forests as we know them. Mr. Leyland said that the timber yards in Australia seemed to he well stocked, and there did not appear to he any demand worth noting for New l Zealand timber, I
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1928, Page 2
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