The Timber Industry.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 69, 18 September 1895, Page 2

The Timber Industry.

While in the Forty-Mile Bash district : last week, Mr Freyburg, Government . timber expert, heard the idea of sending ] timber to the English market generally denounced, because it was said a miller in the district had sent home a quantity : of totara, rimu, and white pine, and lost heavily upon the shipment. On investi- , gating the matter, Mr Freyburg found | that the loss was upon totara knot, and , this was a kind of wood which he had ( previously declared most unsuitable for ; the market, owing to the labour it en- ; tails. A fault which Mr Freyburg found j common up-country, and highly detrim- < ental to the trade, was the practice of ( leaving ragged edges on the timber cut ] for sale. An experiment was made by « trim, in catting* 'up 1 an ol<s ma£ai log \ which had been partly burned and had i lain on the ground for five years. It 1 made boards of the fiuest kind, samples j of which are to be sent to London. Mr i Freyburg considers that large quantities £ of charred logs which now disfigure j clearings all over the 'country- can be j made into majcketeb^e timber.— Poet. f