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Sir, — I wonder if anyone else has looked with regret at the quantity of American timber that is being used in the construction of many of the new buildings in Auckland Just a few years ago one could work at the trade and handle nothing but New Zealand timber, which meant that numbers of New Zealand men were employed felling, cutting up, carting, etc., and the money earned was used by our people to feed and clothe and better the qonditions of many families. Mills were busy, and unemployment not heard of. Today, one would think that there was no other country but America that could provide timber. I read the other day that Mr. Stanley Bruce, the Australian Prime Minister, was warning Australia of America’s intention of flooding the markets of the world with its produce, while shutting out other countries from America. If it is possible that the New- Zealand workers through their unions have made it impossible to compete with material that has had to be brought from America, then I think the unions should be the first to see why conditions are so bad in the Dominions overseas, and alter them. S.R.B.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 710, 9 July 1929, Page 10
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198IMPORTED TIMBER Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 710, 9 July 1929, Page 10
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