POWELLISED TIMBER
A DRY-ROT RESISTANT,
(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrights (Received November 20th, 12.45 a.m.) MELBOURNE, November 19.
Before a Select Committee of the Houso, Mr Gorton, a director of the Powell Wood Process company, said he did not think that the tests with pino in New Zealand had told against the Powollising process, as the wood was rotten before it was tested. The Dominion Government Bad closed down its Powellising plant, but the Public Works Department still had timber tested by the company in New Zealand.
The Chairman: That is strange. 1 telegraphed to the Premier of New Zealand and he replied that the Government was not now using Powellised timber. Witnoss: A month or six weeks ago I was informed that tho company was treating timber for the Public Works Department.
Witness, in answer to questions, claimed that Powollised kauri resisted dry-rot. Laboratory experiments and tests by the -West Australian Government during tho last six years .ustified that claim. He declared that fifty sleepers wero lying for six years in the worst place in West Australia for dryrot, and had not been affected.
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Press, Issue 14828, 20 November 1913, Page 7
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183POWELLISED TIMBER Press, Issue 14828, 20 November 1913, Page 7
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