TIMBER TESTED IN SEA
Treated Pinus Undamaged
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 11.
After being immersed in the sea for more than three years, specially treated timber samples were removed from the harbour bed by mobile crane at Queen’s wharf this morning. The timbers, including Pinus radiata and Malayan keruang, are being tested to study the effects of marine infestation.
Although two sections of untreated pinus were almost eaten «way the treated samples were untouched. The latter were sawn in half and proved to be as good as when they were placed in the harbour.
A representative from the United Kingdom company which is conducting the experiments said that it was hoped, if the results proved successful, to use New Zealand-grown timbers in preference to imported ones.
The most common woods used in the construction of wharf piling up to now had been South African greenheart and Australian turpentine, he said. These were very hard and had been known to have a life of up to TO years.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29153, 14 March 1960, Page 5
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