Filipino Faker Faces Forester

This nb ol dishonest d,ealer il,oings is reprinted, lrom the Philippines Herald and was pirked up by wholesaler PauJ KenJ on his year-long, world cruise. It is interesting to nnte tha,t d,ealers in the Philippines are under the legal jurisd.iction oJ their Forestry Deparhnenr.-Eorton.

NIEXT TIME this dealer sells lumber r \ again to anyone he would be looking at the buyer from head to foot hoping he would not turn out to be another forestry specialist.

That is, if he would still ,be around at all to do any selling. For after the law finishes with him, he would be a free boarder at Muntinglupa (prison) for a long stretch of time.

The ofiense: Passing off inlerbr lumber I.or the high qwlity lurnber a buyer pa,id, pr.

To the utter dismay of this particular seller, the buyer happened to be the president himself of the Society of Filipino Foresters.

It appears that Nicolas P. Lansigan, the head of the local foresters group and an expert in woods, ordered 170 board feet of. guijo lum,ber at a big tableria in a Manila suburb.

The invoice issued made the lumber appear as guijo and was priced as such: P0.65 (about 16{ in American money) a board foot. But the lumber was only a)mon, a much poorer lumber which sells for only P0.34 (about BrkA) a board foot.

Lansigan personally brought the lumber back. No, the owner of the lumber yard insisted. The lumber is guijo. What's worst he began to lecture on how to tell guijo from any other wood. Exasperated, Lansi. gan finally identified himself as a forester.

An the dealer started singing a different tune, admitting the substitution. "Yes, the Iumber is a.lmon." So sorry. W'e can o'fix" the whole thing, yes?

But Lansigan refused to have the case fixed. Instead, he was taking up the case with the bureau of forestry which has jurisdiction over lumber dealers.

Lansigan pointed out that there are two Iaws enacted specifically to protect the pu,blic from fraud in the sale of lumber.

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West Coast purchasing, with headquarters in Eugene, Oregon, administers the distribution of more than 25,000 cars of material annually to the company's customers and sales branches throughout the United States.

Johnson has been active in the plywood industry for the past fourteen years and was product development manager at the company's West Coast manufacturing headquarters prior to his new assignment.