PHILIPPINE TIMBER
Sir,-If your paragraph on page 5 of your issue of January 23 correctly reports what the speaker said about the Philippines, he has, I think, made a mistake about Lignum Vitae. This tree grows chiefly in the West Indies, and I would be surprised to know that it is found growing naturally in the Philippines. Nor do I think that it is the hardest of all woods. It is certainly very hard, but not so hard, I imagine, as some of the woods grown in
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(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 138, 13 February 1942, Page 4
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