Timber Control

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 24 Ebrill 1947.

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Photo of Sir Waldron Smithers Sir Waldron Smithers , Orpington 12:00, 24 Ebrill 1947

Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that the Canadian lumber mills are charging the British Government 77 dollars per 1,000 foot for British railway sleepers, and are charging the Canadian railways 26 dollars per 1,000 foot for better quality timber, and will he explain this discrepancy, and what the milling organisation is?