WOOD PRESERVATION

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 37, 13 February 1930, Page 15

WOOD PRESERVATION

A BRITISH ASSOCIATION (From "The Post's" Representative.) ' LONDON, 10th December. At a meeting ' in the Hotel Metropole last week a British Wood Preservers' Association'was formed. __ Representatives of Government Departments,' estate owners, railway companies, and the interested trades were present. The object of the association will lie to spread a knowledge of'wood, preservation, and the aims will be:— To spread knowledge of wood preservation, . and to standardise specifications for wood preservatives and their application. To investigate, all possible methods of wood preservation. ■■..:■ To afford members opportunities for the interchange of ideas regarding improvements in wood preservation and for the discussion of all relevant matters. "Such &n, association," said Sir Harold Boulton, the chairman, "will shun all mystery in connection with the substances or methods used for wood preservation, and- bring to common knowledge, after due 'exposition and discussion, any proceete likely to benefit the industrialists concerned and the community in general." 'The experience, of tho American- Wood Preservers' Association* which included Canada, would, he thought, be a great help in formulating ideas for the new association. Lord . Clinton, formerly chairman of the Forestry Commission, proposing the formation of the association, said that the bulk of its investigations would be scientific, and would come under the aegis of the Forest Products Research station at Princes Risborough. It might als*o, he thought, find a market for the wood which had to be periodically thinned out from every forest for the health of the remaining trees. Another part of its work would be to' find out how the resistance of .certain timbers to impregnation could be overcome, and to ascertain the loss of strength occurring in many timbers! as a result of treatment. . '