i86 EFFECT OF WAR ON TIMBER SUPPLIES 



timber and other forest imports, such as, e.g., pulp 

 mills, saw mills, furniture factories, brush factories, 

 bobbin manufacturers, etc., and builders, carpenters 

 and joiners, etc. It will therefore be of some interest 

 and perhaps of value to analyse group by group and 

 month by month the imports of the various materials, 

 indicating where possible the countries from which 

 the i^nports have been obtained and the deficits in the 

 amounts received. Such an analysis will enable us 

 to form an opinion as to the directions in which the 

 pinch is already being felt, by a comparison of the fall 

 of imports with an increase in price ; at the same time 

 it will be possible to ascertain the directions in which 

 increases in imports over those for the same months 

 of the previous year have taken place. In the previous 

 article it was pointed out that Norway and Sweden, 

 as also the countries across the Atlantic — Newfound- 

 land, Canada, etc. — would be likely to take advantage 

 of a rise in prices and a dearth of material in this 

 country. Such a state of affairs has to some smaU ex- 

 tent already made itself felt, transport facilities in the 

 way of available ships having probably been the chief 

 deterrent up to date. There is still, therefore, scope 

 for the exploitation of available home supplies, which, 

 owing to their inferior quality and heavy railway 

 freights in this country (now somewhat lowered for 

 some classes of produce), could not previously compete 

 satisfactorily with the imported material. Taking our 

 first group. Hewn Timber (fir, oak, teak, etc.), the 

 table on p. i88 shows month by month the quantities 

 and values received during the periods August 1913 

 to January 1914 and the war period August 1914 to 



