Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1908-11-29 | Page 5 | Pauper Pine from Oregon

i PAUPER PINE FROM OREGON Lumbermen of New Zealand Ask Premier to Put a Duty on lum lumber Lumber Lumber ber Prom From This Country Wellington N Z Nov ov 23 The domin dominion dominIon dominion ion timber trade has been so 80 seriously at af affected by the increasing importations of Oregon pine that an Influential deputation of ot local sawmill owners and timber mer trier merchants merchants chants today petitioned the tIre premier to Impose a duty dut on Oregon lumber Many mills in the th dominion already read have been forced to close clos clo down and others will have hare to follow suit shortly The premier promised that he would ap point a royal commission to investigate the matter He said that when the present agreement expired April 27 1303 1109 the gov government government government would refuse to renew the sub sidles to steamers st amers carrying caming timber against gal the Interests of dominion workers but he said eaid It was Impossible to deal with the question of duty before the next meeting of parliament Portland Ore Nov No Within the last year ear a big lumber export trade has been built up with new Zealand the shipments from the several ports from the Pacific northwest approximating about feet of ot fir Or In previous years ars the annual fh exports of the product did not total more than feet teet on an tin n average