Railway Sleepers
Mr Cadman is supporting his contention for the use of puriri sleepers by the following figures from a return made In t year by Mr Mitchelson. The return in question showed that in 1871 there were 1,687,383 sleepers on railways, consist :m: of matai, totara, birch, kauri, manuka, and puriri, the produce of New Zealand ; blue gum, jarrah, Oregon- pine, red wood and iron bark imported from Australia. During a period of three years, 266,448 sleepers were removed from the lines, biit that lot did not include a single puriri sleeper, although there are 11,000 On the lines. On the other hand, out of 43,622 imported Oregon pine sleepers used in three years, 22,271, or 51 percent., had to be replaced. Mr Cadman admits that iron bark and jarrae come next to puriri in durability, but that the price at which the best kaari, birch, and totara, with only per centages of loss of 42, 81. and 84 respectively could be obtained, must make them as cheap as, if not much cheaper than, imported woods.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 50, 9 October 1884, Page 2
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177Railway Sleepers Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 50, 9 October 1884, Page 2
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