Forty or fifty years ago. fencing wire 1 was a rarity and barbed wire unknown. Consequently most fences were of stabs and battens. Many stabs were sawn heart of totara. and miles of these are still standing -traight and sound in the farm fences around Colvton. At the low estimate of 30s per hundred feet, these stabs as timber would be worth a - king’s ransom —13d stabs to the chain, j 3 by 3 inches, six feet long, means £7OO | worth of timber to the mile, standing I up in a fence.
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Otaki Mail, 29 September 1922, Page 2
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