OLD KAURI TREE HEADS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 585, 13 August 1909, Page 4

OLD KAURI TREE HEADS.

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(By Telcgraph.-Spcclal Correspondent.)

, Auckland, August 12. Regarding the request of the Kaihu.branch of the Liberal and l Labour Federation that tho Minister for 'Railways ' accept railway sleepers. mado from the numerous immense kauri tree heads which oro scattered over old bush workings, and from tho working of, which much employment and .profit could bo derived; no satisfactory, reply has been rowaived. Those responsible for the request offer (says the "Herald's" Northern Wairoa correspondent) to provide 50,000 sleepers fro 1 1? timber which is: now;, lying valueless. ..Mr. Kavanagh; timber .expert For the Auckland Land Department, has reported that even experienced: busliMwi would Jind considerable difficulty in -obtaining sleepers from such a Source, and that trco heads are frequently applied : for.,b;fpersons.; workinfe'. in. their loo* a l&s report 1 is, of course, only applicable to CroWn lands, but, on private territory, there are thousands of: Iheso heads which contain timber of the finest quality, and any schema for their utilisation would command close attention. 'Sbmo few a Kopuru con* tfafctor demised a; plant'bv which ho obtained from tho massive limbs a valuable by-' product.- .The product had a liberal trial from Wairoa binldors, and- proved a really good article,' but, as "the "demand was" restricted, the enterprising; inventor determined upon relinquishing operations. As it )8, a wealth of timber ; (aggregating millions of feet) is mouldering away on worked-out kaun areas., . .