NEW ZEALAND TREES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4584, 9 July 1923, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TREES.

SUITABILITY FOB POLES. At the meeting of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board pn Tuesday Mr Strange said that he thought the Board should take steps to consider the suitability of New Zealand timber for poles, cross-arms, and' other purposes in connection with the Board’s operations. He suggested that a visit should be paid to Mr Richard Reynolds, of Trecarne, Cam : bridge, who is a recognized authority on New Zealand timbers and their uses. The chairman said that he, too, thought serious consideration should be given to the mattei], and he suggested that the Board should get. into communication with the N.Z. Forestry Department. Mr, Gauvain, engineer, said that he was keen to go into the question, and would undertake to bring a scheme, to be submitted to the next meeting, for the utilisation of New Zealand timbers, and the best means of preserving the timber in the ground. He understood that experiments had already been carried out for preserving poles in the ground, one tesit being te dip the ends of poles into a boiling solution of creosote and then put them immediately into a cold solution of about the same strength. By this process it had been claimed that a vacuum was caused which was believed to Haye a greater penetrating effect than the ordinary method of applying tar to poles by moans of a brush.