CONSERVING FORESTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 764, 10 September 1929, Page 10

CONSERVING FORESTS

WEST AUSTRALIA LOOKS TO FUTURE TIMBER MAN ARRIVES West Australia going in for a big scheme of scientific re-afforesta-tion, according to Air. E. B. Sinclair, general manager of the State Sawmills, Perth, who arrived on a business trip by the Makura this morning. Mr. Sinclair was formerly connected with the South-west Timber Hewers’ Co-operative Society, which was absorbed by the present State Sawmills. He controls the destinies of 990 men, who draw a total of £BOO a day in wages. Karri and jarrah are the principal woods over there, said Mr. Sinclair, karri being knpwn throughout the world as a great bending timber, which could be procured in large sizes. The trees grew to a great height, one which had been felled recently at the principal mill at Pemberton being 278 feet high. The trunk, which was taken into the mill to be sawn, was 180 feet long and contained 103 loads, a load representing 50 cubic feet. This timber was very popular with English railway companies and was used for wagon scantling. The State Sawmills operated six jarrah mills and two karri mills. The mills were in the extreme southwest of Western Australia, said Air. Sinclair, and about 220 miles from the capital city. There was an annual rainfall of 80 inches. Air. Sinclair, who will be met by members of the timber trade in New Zealand, will tour the timber areas in the interests of his department.