HARDWOOD TIMBER.
For some- reason best known, to itself, the Railway Department of New Zealand makes a charge of rate and a-half "for imported hardwood timber carried on the railways. The effect of this charge is to unduly penalise local authorities which are compelled to use this timber in the construction of bridges and culverts. There might be some justification for a differential rate against imported timber if it were possible to procure the timber required within the Dominion. Everybody knows, however, that New Zealand does not produce a timber of the same durability as iron-bark, or jarrah. Why these timbers, which are now employed on all modern structures, and are even specified by Government engineers when grants have to ibe expended, should be subjected to a charge of rate and a-half on the Dominion railways, local bodies are at a loss, to know.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10257, 8 June 1911, Page 4
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144HARDWOOD TIMBER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10257, 8 June 1911, Page 4
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