SHORTAGE OF HOUSES.
AN ARCHITECT’S SOLUTION TIMBER DUTY FREE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, Last Night. At the meeting of the council of the Institute o-f Architects, Mr. H. Davis, on behalf of the Hawke’s Bay branch, moved that the incoming council be recommended to urge the Government to limit the export of native timbers and remove the Customs duties on imported timber and make the railway freights the same on foreign as on local timbers. The motion was seconded by Mr. J. Greig, and carried. Explaining the position, Mr. Davis said there was a duty of 3s per 1000 feet on imported timber, and the railway freight was 50 per cent, more than charged on local e timbers. If the Government would allow timbers, such as Oregon pine, to be imported free of duty and placed on the market at the same rates as local timbers, it would greatly relieve the building shortage.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 February 1921, Page 5
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153SHORTAGE OF HOUSES. Taranaki Daily News, 24 February 1921, Page 5
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