"Stockholm Tar"

Progress, Volume XVII, Issue 2, 1 October 1921, Page 43

" Stockholm Tar"

FROM KAURI LIMBS. Forest-Ranger Whitehorn, of- the Auckland Conservation Region, reports that a settler named Arnusson, living near Dargaville, has been extracting material from kauri limbs, which he sells in Auckland as Stockholm tar. Messrs. John Burns and Co., to whom he sold forty gallons, had no difficulty in disposing of this. They state that it is. a considerably better article than the usual imitation ".Stockholm tar of commerce; it is somewhat thinner than the European tar. Arnusson's method of extraction is interesting, being that adopted by the Swedish peasants in the treatment of their pines. The wood is split up into small pieces and stacked in a circular heap, with' ends pointing inwards and downwards. This is then fired on the outside, as in charcoal-burning, the heat causing the juices to run down the centre of the pile into a receptacle placed at the bottom. This promises well for the utilisation of our kauri bush waste (states the " Forest Service Newsletter.") ■ Times.