Colonial Timber at Home,

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 110, 3 November 1894, Page 4

Colonial Timber at Home,

Mr James Freyberp^, the newlyappointed timber expert to the New Zealand Government, arrived in London recently, and presented Ins credentials at the Aftent-General's office, where Mr Freyberg has now been accommodated with a room. He has entered upon his duties, and fs most sanguine of being able to push tbe New Zealand timber trade. I found him surrounded with splendid sampled of New Zealand timbers, and hard at work writing out descriptions of them and full information concerning their properties, peculiarities, and various merits. Mr Freybcrg is convinced that a very large trade will be dono in New Zealnnd roods when their shijruJuv beauty aud variety arc inotvn in. the Home MarL*ct3." lie says that the crude display of them at the Imperial Institute hat led to many inquiries, and that there ought to be a vast amount of money in honeysuckle wood alone, not to speak , of mottled kauri, totara knot, nmu, • t etc. He told mt of cases in which wealthy people who were about to build churches or houses, or to order .' costly furniture, had seen these woods ,->at the laperial Institute, and had insisted upon their architect or manufacturer obtaining these woods for }>othem. Mr Freyberg is a thorough vi.ttnthusiast ana such enthusiasm as his is apt to be catching. It seems a very good move sending him Home, * Jjnd the colony ought to reap much hl pgnefit if it can sell at high prices o simber which at present is beisg utbntned for firewood or recklessly destroyed merely to clear the land. — '"IDti&don correspondent.