ALLEGED TIMBER RING.
COMPLAINT BY MK HOGG.
Mr A. A. Hogg complained in Parliament on Saturday that a timber ring existed which imposed iniquitous restrictions upon persons who desired to enter the timber business. He had received a copy of a letcer which the secretary of a sawmillers' association forwarded to a young man who set up in business as a limber letailer. It stated that before he could become a recognised timber merchant lie must satisfy the association that he intended to trade as a bona fide retailer, that he must stock 100.000 feet of marketable timber, excluding mouldings, all orders to be placed continuously, and not solely f-.ir personal consumption, and to te placed with the association in preference to others. Mr D. McLaren said that one or two working carpenters who started business in Wellington had the fame experience. It was a gross case of industrial tyranny. The Hon. J. A. Millar replied that thematter might be dealt some practical way.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10133, 6 December 1910, Page 7
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164ALLEGED TIMBER RING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10133, 6 December 1910, Page 7
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