IMPORTED OREGON.
DANGER TO LOCAL INDUSTRY. DUTY MAY BE NECESSARY. By Telegraph.—Free* Association. Wellington, Last Night Suggestions have been made that American timber merchants are attempting to dump quantities of second-grade Oregon pine on the New Zealand market at extremely low prices, and it this allowed, it is claimed by local millers, it will result in a return to the conditions of 1907, when millers were unable to market lower grades of local timbers, and consequently numbers of bush workers were thrown out of employment, The matter was referred to Sir Francis Bell, who said it was a matter for very grave consideration whether a - duty should be placed on imported timber to be utilised for building purposes. The matter had not been with "by the Government, however, nor had any definite representations been made to the Government on the subject.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 April 1921, Page 5
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141IMPORTED OREGON. Taranaki Daily News, 9 April 1921, Page 5
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