The specification by the Department of Housing that only heart timber should be used for the weather boarding of State houses, criticised recently by the West Coast Sawmillers’ Association on the ground that it was causing the accumulation of non-heart timber and thus making it necessary for the mills to close down temporarily. is also considered undesirable by the Canterbury Builders’ and Contractors' Association. At a meeting of the association members commented that air-dried ordinary timber should be used in Canterbury. Such timber was perfectly suitable, it was said, and its use would reduce building costs by 25 per cent. The president of the association (Mr J. B. Johns) assured the meeting that all information possible about the suitability of ordinary timber had been submitted to the Director of State Housing (Mr A. Tyndall) during his ..visit to Christchurch recently.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1939, Page 2
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