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Southland Times, Issue 1725, 8 April 1873, Page 3

New Use foe Sawdust. — The subject of economising wood, like that of the conservation of forests, is a matter of some importance. The application of sawdust ! for moulding into a solid, form haa been more than ones talked of, and in relation to thiß subject we quote the following from a recent number of the British Trade Journal : — " The forests are being so rapidly destroyed by the progress of felling, fire?, and carelessness of proprietors, as to excite an apprehension of a scarcity of timber very much sooner than was formerly imagined. In short, wood for all purposes is already dear, and becoming more costly. Tens of thousands of saw-milla are rasping sawdust enough annually to freight a navy, a very small part of which is utilised in packing ice. It might, and ought to be all saved, and manufactured into planks, and floor-boards, and moulded into vessels, furniture, and hundreds of forms in which it might be used, instead of going lamentably to waste. "When mixed with insoluble glues, and pressed, as it may be, there is no calculating the profit that is yet to be realised in manufacturing sawdust. A new source of industry that would give employment to immense numbers of laborers and ingenious artists is in the future. Those who first begin the enterprise will reap a larger harvest than the inventor of paper collars, which trade has grown to colossal proportions, and is still coining fortunes even for small adventurers."