AFRICAN MAHOGANY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 May 1913, Page 4

AFRICAN MAHOGANY.

The English "Timber Trades Journal" of March 15th contains the following: After some of the lean times which shippers of African mahogany experienced in the early days, a satisfactory -sra of prosperity appear* to. have

become established daring the last fire or six years, tiha wood, like most othor having „-«teadily depreciated, in vidua during sthia period. One has only to turn to our reports of the periodical sitles hekl in Liverpool and London, or to brokers' average utatoments of tho sales, j to, realise this fm-t. Further satisfactory results were afforded to importers of this wood by the outcome of tl»? auctions held in Liverpool this week, the sale of some figured logs in the catalogue being -espeeially noteworthy. Three logs catalogued—ail parts of the same tree —were submitted, and realised a total of close upoa £4OOO, one part making 13a 3d per foot, another lis 7d, a third (a curl from the top v i selling; at 3s 6d p>r foot. The sale of this fine tree follows on ths disposal of another, which was sold in London a. -"fortnight ago. This trunk was divided into two parts, on* log realising 9s 9d per foot, the other 9a per foot, and a total value of £I4BO for the two.