HC Deb 23 October 1946 vol 427 cc374-5W
92. Mr. Parker

asked the President of the Board of Trade what is preventing the shipment of additional quantities of the large supplies of soft wood available in Norway.

Mr. Belcher

I am afraid there are no large quantities of soft wood available for export from Norway which is, at present, an importer of this kind of timber, and purchases from Norway this year have had to be confined to pitprops and telegraph and other poles.