TIMBER MILLERS DISMISS MORE MEN
TARIFF AFFORDS NO
RELIEF
IMPORTED WOODS USED On account of the absence of orders for New Zealand timbers the Bartholomew Timber Company has had to curtail employees at its mill on the Rotorua line, 15 men being put off. Altogether about 100 men have been thrown out of work recently in lie timber mills along the Rotorua line. The company explains its action by stating that the protection given to the timber industry does not seem to have afforded much relief, and the fact that the Government uses such a great deal of imported timber in its buildings, and that architects are specify, ing imported "timbers to be used in the majority of buildings now betas erected, mako it appear as though no immediate improvement in the indnstry can be expected.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 301, 12 March 1928, Page 8
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136TIMBER MILLERS DISMISS MORE MEN Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 301, 12 March 1928, Page 8
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