WHITE PINE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 6, 16 December 1911, Page 7

WHITE PINE.

FIXING THE TARIFF IN AD STB \LI \ A BIG CONCESSION. Melbourne, December 14. The House sat all night discussing the proposal ie admit V>v Zealand white nine undressed for butter boxes, sines not less than 5 inch by three-quarter inch, not exceed!: g fourteen inches by one fiveeighths inches, but not cut to shape, Lee, ami timber undressed to size ior bo-.making at four shilling i 'i ndred super feet. It met with strong opposition. It was contended that it would seriously injure the box making trade and give the industry an advantage over fruit. Mr. Groom claimed that Queensland con' 1 supply all the butter bo:: tmber required. Mr. Denton thought a friendly spirit might be shown to New Zealand. This matter, apart from considerations, favoured the imposition of four shillings on partly dressed timber, but New Zealand white pine was used as raw material in other industries which produced household necessities., In the course of the discussion Mr. Tudor suggested that while pine, any size, should come in at sixpence per hundred super foot, and all other New Zealand pine should fall at the same rate as other timber. The Ministry considered that New Zealand white pine should not he treated differently to other timber. Apparently, however, the Government bad knocked against one or two vested interests. In the House, Mr. Tudor compromised, making New Zealand white pine, undressed, dutiable at sixpence per hundred super feet, and tins was adopted. This allows white pine to come in for fruit cases as well as butter boxes.