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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15606, 2 June 1916, Page 9

j An 8000-gallon tank, which has been ' in use in the Hobarfc railway yards . for over *10 years, has just been taken" ■to pieces, and furnishes further evidence as to the possibilities of ccrtain | timbers ill point of durability (says the j Hobart "Mercury"). In this particui lar instance, the timber of which the tank was made was New Zealand kauri pine, and the tank has been in the same position in the railway yard since it was put up at the time of the construction of the Tasmanian Main Line in about 1874. On ite ( being taken to pieces it was found > that the whole of the timber, with the I exception of three or four staves, is in a perfect state of preservation, and it is intended to re-erect the tank at some other point along the railway line. Most of the wooden tanks in use !bv the Railway Department are of | Huon pine, and it has been found that in point of' durability this timber is ' equal to any other. Some tanks of I Huon pine, of approximately the same I age as the kauri pino tanK, have reI cently been taken to nieces, and have btood the test of time equally well.