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Coast Counties Cfub Hofds Annuaf Meeting
George N. Lev Re-elected President
The fourth annual meeting of the Coast Counties Lunrbermen's Club rvas held at the F'ranciscan Hotel. Salinas. Calif., Saturday evening, March 4, 1933. George N. Ley. Santa Cruz Luntber Co., Santa Cruz, lvas re-electecl president. Arthur Hayn ard. Homer T. Hayrvarcl Lumber Co., Salinas, .rvas re-elected vice presiclent and J. H. Kirk, Southern Pacific Nlilling Co., San Luis Obispo. was re-electecl treasurer. M. D. Bishop rvas re-elected secretary-manager.
W. H. Enlo,rv presented President Le1' rvith an Elk's tooth charm on rvhich his initials were engraved and a sheep skin lined leather coat on behalf of the Club. In appreciation for the four years of service rendered the Club by President Ler', Mr. Enlow read the follou'ing poem:
A Message Of Appreciation
Four years have come and gone
Four years have slipped awal
Four years of toiling on
Four years have made you gra)..
You have conquered our oppression
You har-e .guidecl a straight course ' You have €fiven us ambition
You have fought with all your force.
We have been, at times, contrary We have feigned that we knerv best We have kept you in a quanclary
We have caused you great Llnrest.
After all, n,e've learned our lesson
After all, rve've found the rvay
After all, rve've made confession
After all. rve thank you, Presiclent Lc-r-.
Frank O'Connor, president of the California Wholesale Lumbermen's Association, San Francisco; Col. S. O. Johnson, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco: Frecl Holmes, Ifohnes Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco: NI.
L. Euphrat, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco; Jerrv Bonnington, Wendling-Natl-ran Lumber Co., San Francisico; Ai Hansen, S. H. Chase Lumber Co., San Jose; Tom Hubbard, Hubbard-Carmichael Bros., San Jose; Ed. Larson, secretary of the San Jose Lumbermen's Club, San Jose; George Cornrvall, The Timberman, Portland, Ore.;
H. A. Lake, president of the California Retail Lumbermen's ,Association, Garclen Grove, and D. C. Essley, manager of jthe California Retail Lurnberrnen's Association, Oakland, irvere guests of the Club ancl each addressed the meeting. j Col. Johnson, who was rvith the Twentieth Engineers. 'Forestry Division, during the Worlcl War, showed three ireels of standard size moving pictures of the Tenth ancl iTn,entieth Engineers' logging ancl sarvmill operations in lFrance, which were greatly enjoyed. A unique feature of Ithe entertainment rvas the guessing contest, rvhich incluclerl .the favorite saying, favorite sport, hoblt\', etc., of several of the guests present; these rvere read by Dee rvas up to the crorvd to guess to rvhom they
The annual banquet preceded the business good gathering rvas in attendance, 75 being
Essley and applied. session, ancl present.
Foreign Lumber Shipments lrom Oregon and \(/ashington Decline
Washington, February 28.-According to reports received here from the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau, Ilritish Columbia's lumber exports have been greatly benefitted by the British preferential tariff.
In 1932 water-borne shipments of lumber from British Colurnbia to countries foreign to the Unitecl States totallecl 367,2O7,Ufi feet. These shipments 1yg16 only 8 per cent less than corresponding shipments in the active business year ,of 1929. In the same period, that is from 1929 to L932, foreign lumber shipments from the neighboring states of Washington and Oregon declined 67 per cent. British Columbia lumber shipments to Australia were three times as much by volume in 1932, one and one-half times to the United Kingdom and one and one-fourth times to China, as they were in 1929. On the other hand shipments of lumber from Washington and Oregon to the United Kingdorn in 1932 were only 15 per cent of what they were in l9D; to Australia only 5 per cent; to China 39 per cent. However, British Columbia lost a little more on its export tracle to Japan than dicl the neighboring states of Washington and Oregon, the clecline being respectively 69 and 5l per cent.
But if the British tariff, following an immemorial period of free tracle, rvas beneficial to British Columbia, the U. S. tevenue tariff of $3.00 a thousand feet was highly detrirnental to B. C. exports to the United States. Those exports in 1932 were onlv 20 per cent of rvhat they were in 1929. The portion of these shipments going to the Atlantic Coast in 1932 was 14 per cent of what they were in 1929. But 1932 shipments from Washington and Oregon to American ports were 42 per cent of the 1929 volume, while thosc to the Atlantic Coast alone were 45 per cent and the California ports 36 per cent. Comparing the efiects of the British preferential and the American revenue tariffs, it is found that British Columbia had a net export loss of 44 per cent from 7929 to 1932, u'hile Washington and C)regon suffered a loss of 61 per 6s6f-455urning that.reductions ir.r both regions were clue to the net curtailing efiects of the tariff changes.
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