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MR SCULLIN’S STATEMENT. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.j (Received this day at 9 a..m.) CANBERRA, June 20. The Prime Minister in a statement concerning the Russian timber shipment (cabled on the 18th) said the Government had no power to check Russian imports. There is a heav\ customs tariff on all foreign timbers, and the Government had no means of ascertaining whether the consignment was produced by iorced labour, but inquiries are continuing.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1931, Page 5
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74RUSSIAN TIMBER Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1931, Page 5
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