2 Estimated Stocks, Stocks, Consumption, End 1943 End 1944 (estimated) 1944 Week's Week's Commodity. Th. tons. Th. tons. Consumption. Th. tons. Consumption* Softwoods 1,940 1,287 34 1,057 28 Hardwoods 1,160 463 21 413 18 Mining timber 1,700 946 29 831 25 Woodpulp 380 237 32 192 26 Newsprint 272 102 20 108 21 Phosphate rock 780 248 16 108 7 Sulphur 240 130 28 108 23 Pyrites 252 156 32 98 20 5. The effect upon raw materials of the cessation of war in Europe will vary from commodity to commodity. There is no significance for the purposes of the present enquiry in the overall stock position and l propose therefore to comment separately upon each of the main materials.