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Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1928, Page 2

THE NEW TIM HE It ACE. (From the London “Observer.”) Sixteen thousand square yards of Tasmanian oak flooring have been laid dawn in the new Lloyd’s building opened recently bv the King. The figure is remarkably large, This is the iron age. but mare timber is now being consumed than at any ether period in history. The, tree, unlike the horse, is holding its own triumphantly against all the devices of mechanical invention. Railways and motors are giving employment to trees, which, until recently, v.o never wanted at least in Europe. But the marked tendency in building and construtlion today is to experiment with new woods. A quickened interest in the extra-rd-inorily varied, timbers of the Empire i;s also being shown. Empire limber lias entered into every day life more tli a u real i set!. Tu.sm an ia 11 oak. whit'll is now to be trodden by the feet of tl’.e underwriters at Lloyd’s has been accepted for the floors of the Great Hail at Hampton Court Palace, for new London County Council sehcoH and for several important business concerns. Even this can only give a very slight impression of the odd variety of useful work being found for Empire timbers. They are coming more and new' into all phases of building and c mxtruct ion. Some of their names, like iarrah and kauri pine, are even getting known to laymen. Others are still imperfectly familiar to professionals.