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Mr. Cole said the contractors were well represented at Washington and made a good plea for their right to buy direct. The paragraph prohibiting this was deleted but may be restored to the Code. In answer to other questions he said that sub-standard lumber must be marked substandard; that the wholesaler must sell his retail yards at the same price as to other retailers; that small sawmills selling retail trade only can give commissions up to 10 per cent.

Questioners included Frank L. Fox, Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co., Glendale; Kenneth Smith, Los Angeles; Mead Clark, Santa Rosa; E. T. Robie, Auburn; C. S. Tripler, Stockton; Paul Hallingby, Los Angeles, and Earl D. Minton, Minton Lumber Co., Mountain View.

Arthur W. Bernhauer, president Tri-State Woodwork Association, Fresno, spoke on "Manufacturers' National Code-Millwork Division-as It Will Affect the California Retail Trade." Mr. Bernhauer spoke at short notice in place of L. G. Sterett, secretary of the Association, who has been in Washington for the past five weeks. He explained the three divisions of the Association, which is charged with the responsibility of administering the Code, and which is really the old Millwork Institute, embracing larger territory. The speaker told the retailers some of the difficulties of interpreting the Millwork Code. Lumber yards manufacturing woodwork come under the Millwork Code, he said, and yards buying millwork and reselling it

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