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B. Declared Value of Wood and Timber Imports. 



Kingdom ; (2) a corresponding increase in the consumption of 

 timber in certain other countries ; and (3) a serious diminution 

 in the available timber supply in all accessible parts of the 

 world. As to the increase in British consumption, he exhibited 

 Tables A and B, compiled from the Statistical Abstract, showing 

 the increase in the quantity and value of our timber imports 

 during the last twenty years. Much of the timber, he pointed 

 out, was quite capable of being grown in the United Kingdom. 

 The Table showed that there had been a large increase in the 

 quantity of the imports of every class of wood product, except 

 unenumerated hewn wood, unenumerated sawn wood, and staves. 

 But even where there had been a fall in the total quantity 

 imported, the enhanced price had swelled the total amount paid. 

 Thus : — 



