§ 65. Mr. Edelmanasked the President of the Board of Trade what quantity of timber, estimated in standards, he expects to make available from all sources for the 1947 building programme.
§ Mr. BelcherTimber will be allocated for the 1947 building programme in the light of supplies available and other essential requirements. I hope that our total softwood imports in 1947 will exceed those of 1946, but I would repeat that prospects here, as in so many other respects, largely depend on the quantity of 337W goods we are able to export to the main supplying countries, and I am not yet in a position to give any reliable estimate.
§ 66. Mr. Edelmanasked the President of the Board of Trade what quantity of the 25,000 standards of Soviet timber contracted for in September has been shipped.
§ Mr. MarquandThe actual contract was for 23,000 standards, of which nearly 14,000 were shipped before the ports were closed by ice. Six thousand standards more will be shipped next year. In addition, some 5,000 standards of mining timber have been obtained.