HARDWOOD POLES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 59, 4 December 1923, Page 7

HARDWOOD POLES

EXPERT OPINIONS ON DURABILITY.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, December 3.

“It is very evident that in constructing metal towers for the support of over seventy miles of electric pouter lines from the Great Lake to llobart, the Tasmanian authorities have Jess confidence in the suitability for that purpose of their own fine hardwood than the experts who are undertaking similar schemes in this Dominion.”—-This paragraph appeared in a report presented to the Selwyn Plantations Board to-day by the superintendent (Mr. R. G. Robinson after a six weeks tour in Australia. Mr. Robinson went on to say: “I had several interesting discussions in New South Wales and Tasmania with experts associated with the export of hardwood poles. On submitting evidence of premature decay in New Zealand of imported poles, tho authorities were not surprised, as they declared that much of the timber was cut from comparatively youthful trees of a species not covered by the highest durability tests, and, moreover, which had not undergone any special examination a Government timber officer.”