Only Isolated Cases

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31030, 9 April 1966, Page 10

Only Isolated Cases

In the two years he had been chairman of the MidCanterbury Farm Forestry Association he had known of only two isolated cases of wire corroding where it was used with treated fence posts, Mr P. W. Smail, of Horoata, said this week, commenting on remarks made at the annual meeting of the association last week. “I consider that this is a teething problem which should be kept in its correct perspective,” said Mr Smail. In the case where there had been severe corrosion after five years the post had been bored when freshly treated and the wires threaded. The

practice of boring was not recommended and was not now necessary, as the barbed staple was available. The other case of which he had knowledge was with half-round post material where the wire had been in contact with the post before the salts had been fixed in it. Mr Smail said that samples of the wire had been sent to the Forest Research Institute at Rotorua, and the best advice available was that there should be no contact between the wire and post before the salts had been fixed in the post. At this time of the year this took about six weeks.