OREGON PINE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 186, 28 July 1908, Page 3

OREGON PINE

Tire Borough Council declined last night to endorse, the following resolution which was passed at a public meeting i„ Greymouth:— ''That we, the residents of Uroymouth and district, feel the greatest apprehension at the rapidly increasing dumping of Oregon lumber in the markets which have been the source of demand for our red pine export business, which has already begun considerably to diminish, must result ill the extinction of half oiw avenue of employment, and in the most serious injury to the industrial and commercial prosi perity of this district. AVe realise that the large sums of money being regularly transferred to the pockets of American sawmillers should in all circumstances be rightly distributed amongst the various channels which so valuable a home industry creates and assists; that the profits sought by producers arc barely fair and reasonable; and that the foreign ! competition oppressing us so vitally owes its success to undercutting t.ie prices for New Zealand timber, to the utilisation of cheap colored labor, the encouragement of which is so strenuously tabooed by the laws of this Dominion. For these reasons wo pray the Government to take immediate steps towards adequately and effectually protecting the industry of timber-produc-tion in New Zealand." ■. Cr. Bollringcr moved that the leu-.i b« allowed to lie on the table. lhi« was no matter for a borough council. and.it would be bad taste to interfere for the councillors were here not. in the interests of the sawmillers or Oilier Industries, but as representatives of the burgesses. He considered this mattci would work its own cure. The leuci ,-as ordered to lie on the table.