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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5280, 25 July 1888, Page 4

The Annual Export of Kanri Timber from New Zealand, according to the latest statistics, is estimated by the Vendors as follows, viz.:— , ToViotoria .. .. .. .. .. .. 10,000,000 feet. „ New South Wales .. ~ ~ .. .. 10,000,000 „ ~ South Australia \ „ Western „ ( , nnft - nft ~/Queensland | •• " " " MOO.OOO „ x i, Tasmania / MAKING A YEARLY EXPORT OF .. .. .. ~ .. .. 25,000,000 feet. The Annual Consumption in New Zealand and the adjacent Islands has been carefully estimated at .. • • .. 36,000,000 feet. MAKING AN ANNUAL OUTPUT OF .. .. .. .. .. .. 60,000,000 feet. The Directors, from their long experience of the trade, are confident that the Company will not only bo able to do business to this extent, but that year by year, as the appreciation and demand for kauri increases, a larger business may bo expected. Taking, however, the full extent of the Company's business to be, annually, as above, the profits, after making all necessary deductions for Sinking Fund, etc., are estimated at much more than amply sufficient to pay the guaranteed dividend. The only charges to be borne by the Company, beyond the expenses of completing tho contracts, are the usual charges for brokerage, advertising, and other preliminary expenses. The Memorandum, and Articles of Association, with_ the various contracts hereinbefore referred to, or certified copies thereof, plans of the properties and the Agreement I between the Vendors and the Company, are now lying for inspection at the offices of the Solicitors for the Company in Melbourne and Auckland. The accompanying extracts indicate the opinions of competent authorities and tho growing appreciation of Kauri Timber in the Colonies and Great Britain. Applications for Shades will be received until tho 28th day of July inst, which will bo deemed the dato of application, by Mr George Holdship, at the Offices of the Auckland Timber Company, Limited, in Auckland, and through any of the Brokers of tho Company. Dated at Melbourne, this 7th day of July, 1888. EXTRACTS REFERRED TO IN PROSPECTUS. The following: Extracts are from the evidence given by Mr Allison Smith, Locomotive Superintendent on the Victorian Railways, before the Forests Commission in April, 1887. . > Your position, both in New Zealand nml here, affords you exceptional opportunities of knowing the value of colonial timbers P—Yes. Woula yon be good enough to say if any of the colonial timbers are used in New Zealand ?—Nothing else but the colonial timber is used. And what timber principally?— For theframewoik, both of carriages and waggons, blue gum and ironbark. Grown where P—On this side. Some of it comes from Tasmania, and some from New South Wales—jarrah and some of the other gums are also used. Wβ do not know the names of them over there so well as they nre known here, bat all the eucalyptus timbers are used exclusively for the framing of carriages and waggons, and nothing eleo has been used there for the last twelve years. You have spoken of the framework ; now as to the other parts f—As to the-other parts, wo uso kauri and rimu principally. Aro both theso New Zealand timbers ?—Yes, both of these aro New Zealand timbers. That applies to tho carriages ?—Carriages and wnggons. Aro the sides of the waggons kauri also P—Yes, both sides, ends, and floors. . , . ■.'*•■. Do you find that tho wood answers as well as the hardwood you hove been speaking of for frames P—No, these timbers are pines, and are not specially suitable fof framework Thoy take tho place of the Baltic timber which is used here for similar purposes. " In Victoria ?—ln Victoria ;so that you are bringing inferior timber all the way from the Baltic, when you can get New Zealand timber close at hand, and of better quality And of what kind of timber are the frameworks of carriages constructed in Victoria P—A large quantity of blaokwood has been used, and also large quantities of te&kwoodimported from Rangoon. Do you coneider that the teak is equal to the hardwood of New Zealand?— There are many advantages in teak. It is a light timber, and easily worked, hut it is a very expensive one, and I think that, under tho circumstances, tho balanco would be in favor of tho colonial timber by a very long way. ; > So tliat this curiouß stiito of things exists at the present time in New Zealand- they are constructing carriages and waggons of Australian when we in Australia are constructingour carriages and waggons of Indian timber ?—Not waggons—carriages. Carriages only:"—-Yes; but in"tho waggons a groat deal of timber from the Baltic is used. Notwithstanding that the Australian timber F—New Zealand timber is more suitable for the sides and ends and floors. But for the frames ?—For the frames, black wood is used from Tasmania. I think you do not quite follow me. What I desire to put is this, that you state that in New Zealand they use Australian timber for tho frames?—^ee. And in Victoria they use what timbor P—ln Victoria they use both blackwood and teak. But no Australian hardwood?—No, not Australian hardwood as distinguished from blackwood. So that a country away from Australia is using Australian timber, while Australia itself is ignoring it ?—Yes. Is it cheaper P— Yes; and I like it better. What kinds do you recommend P—lronbark gives the best results, but if they are well seasoned all the timbers are good. I suppose you have had somo tests applied to enable you to say P—Yes, many tests. Havo you any figures to show the results of thoso tests ?—Yes. I have not got them with me, but I will put in a table. What quantity of Australian timber do you suppose could be used by the Department per annum ?—Do you mean used by the Department itself, and also used for the Department in the shape of contracts ? Quite so. The quantity is enormous, but I cannot tell you without reference to tho storekeeper. Ana vera know do valii reason why it should not fee used ?—No; and, in. fast, we have already built an experimental car to show that it can be done here. The Commissioners* enrriago is built entirely of ironbark and kauri. And that is a success P—Yes. And if it were adopted by the Railway Department for sides and floors, a large trado would be doveloped P—Yes, no doubt it would. Do thoso figures apply to Victoria or New Zealand ?Is that tho price landed, here or the price in New Zealand ?—lt is hard to say exactly. The mere cost of bringing it over in schooners from the Kaikoura or Auckland is not very great. It is only about five days by schooner. ■ i Does anything of interest strike you about tho question of timber P—A point that has often suggested itself to me hero is that I see such, enormous quantities of Balfjo timber imported into the colony of Victoria when there is really a very much better timber in the shape of pine wood to be got in New Zealand. A number of the pines which have been grown here have been planted—havo you tried them ?—No ; I nave not tried them; but they would not be large enough yet for timber. You see, tho great value of tho kauri pine i* that it grows about 180 feet long and perfectly straight; and the trees grow as much as eight feet in thickness in the trunk, and there is not a single knot to bo found in tho timber at all. In which part of New Zealand are they to be found P—ln the North Island. If not useful to us, it would be to posterity ?—Yes ; and it is the most useful timber I have ever come across anywhere. It is useful for house-building, for ship-building, for rolling stock of every description; in fact, for every purpose you can put timber kauri is useful. Is it subjeot to white ants r— l do not think so. We have no white ants in New Zealand, so Ido not know whether it is subject to them or not; but I think not. It is full of resin. Would you recommend the planting of kauri, then, in preference to any other pine ?—Yes. Ido not know a more useful tree in the world. I might say that the question of New Zealand timber has been written about by Dr Hector over there; and if it would be any use to you, I might got one of his reports. In a Report by Messrs Bansome and Co., on the practical tests of Colonial Timbers in connection with the Colonial and Indian Exhibition at Stanley Works, King's Boad, Chelsea, October Bth, 1886, the following remarks appear :— " Kauri (Dammara Australis). —This is undoubtedly the beet of all soft woods. During the trials a door was constructed, casks made, straight and circular mouldings etruoki match-boarding prepared, and engineers' patterns built. For all the above purposes the practical men who witnessed the trials agreed that the wood waa perfect. It planes across thi end of the grain quite as well and smoothly as with it; it stains well, takes a good polish, and would be valuable for bedroom furniture Thie timber has been imported regularly into this country, though in rather small quantities, for several years past; the last cargo was sold for from 3s to 3s 6d per cubic foot. The tree, which i is found in the province of Auckland only, attains a height of 120 feet, with a maximum diameter of 15 feet. The plank sent to be experimented on was 5 feet 6 inches wide, absolutely clear of knots and shakes, and apparently as true as when first sawn from tho log." ' In a Report on the Durability of New Zealand Timbers in Constructive Works, prepared for the New Zealand Government by Mr T. Kirk, F.L.S., it ! is stated with regard to Kauri :— " The kauri is the finest tree in New Zealand, and produces the most valuablo timber. It is restricted to tho northern part of the North Island, and does not occur in any quantity south of a line drawn from Port Waikato to Tauranga, although solitary trees or small groups aro found as far south as Maketu on the east ooast, and Kawhia on the west. It attains the height of 120 to IGO feet and upwards; clean, symmetrical trunks may be seen from 50 to SO or even 100 feet in length, varying from 6to Vi feet and upwards in diameter. The timber has acquired a reputation above all New Zealand kiuds from its value for masts, spars, and other purposes of naval i architecture, which led to its being exported for use in tho British dockyards about the commencement of tho present century. i " Except tor general building purposen its use has been chiefly confined to the North Island, where there is abundant evidence of its durability for more than thirty years in i eomo of the old mission buildings at the Bay of Islands, the weather-boarding of which exhibits no figns of decay. The same must be said of some of tho oldest houses i of the City of Auckland, and in other parts of the province, although I have been unable to obtain trustworthy evidence of their existence for more than twenty-three or twenty-four years, as in all the town most of tho old buildings have been removed to make way for improvements. *' Kauri bus been employed, in conjunction with totara, for the upper timbers of the Auckland wharf, the largest work of the kind in the colony, with the most satisfactory rcsultu. Braces, stringers, and tie-beams are in good condition after being oightjen years in use. The greater portion of the old Wynyard pier waa recently removed in the formation of the waikato railway, when many of the timbers were found tound, although others wire much decayed, after fully twenty-threo years' service. ! "It has betn extensively used for bridge timbers with the best results, but lam not aware of any iustauco of older date than the Auckland wharf. ! " Tho superiority of kauri to Tasmanian blue gum, under heavy wear and tear, has been demonstrated by the use of both timbers on the Auckland wharf, when the former was found to last twice as long as the latter, under severe tests. "At the Tuupiri coal mines sleepers were in pood condition after from five to nine years' use. It has been used on tho tramways of the Thames goldfield, where it ia sound and good after being five years in use. Sir A. Sheath, Inspector of telegraph lines for the North Island, informs me that the kauri kerbing opposite Government House, ; Auckland, was taken up after being laid eighteen years, mid was then perfectly sound. y •• It has been employed for tramway rails on the Thames goldfiuld, and wan nearly everywhere found in excellent condition after fivo years' wear and tear. At the Waikato coal niinee it has been employed for the Fame purpose for nine yeais, and is still serviceable, which is remarkable, as the rails were out from email-sized trees growing in the neighborhood. Totara and rimu rails laid at the same time have perished, the former probably from having been also eawn out of young timber. «< Cn the Thames goldfield it is used for mino props, struts, and cap-pieces, and maintains its character for durability, although for thia purposo tanekoha and black birch are often used on account of their smaller cost. " Does ho strongly recommend tho kauri also ?—Yea. " As useful for all purposes that softwood ia used for ?— TTor nearly every purpose that timber can bo put to. " And you think that, with Victorian hardwood and New Zealand kauri, you could build, to the best advantage, all the rolling stock required by the Victorian railways ?—» Yes, I am certain that can ba done, for I did it tor ten years in Now Zealand, so there ia no question about it." The following extract from tho Scotch Supplement of tho Timber Trades Journal of sth May, 1888, gives somo idea of the prospect of opening up a good trade with tho Home Markota: — ■ " The cargo of kauri pino recently landed ex ' Aurora," from Kaipara, Now Zealand, was offered by Messrs Allison, Cousland & Co., at their auction sales on 3rd inst., the catalogue also comprising a varied assortment of other wood, goods, viz , Quebec pine deals and planks, pitch pine deals, parcels of N.S. black walnut logs, etc. As hare been before noticed in your columns, tho übovo arrival of kauri pine is the first full cargo of this wood imported into Clyde, and the result of the public sale has been awaited with considerable interest. " A largo company assembled, and there was a fair amount of competition, tho result being that the greater part of the cargo was disposed of, and at good prices, partioulara of which are undornoted." Messrs Allison, Counlnnd & Co.'s auction sale, 3rd May : — Vet cubic foot. ; Per cubic foot. Kauri pine— s. d. j Kauri pino— B. d. 8. d. 12/15 ft. .. .. 21:54 x'J .. .. 2 9 j 12/2lft. .. .. 38/49x4 .. 2 8 12/23 ft. .. .. 21/2Gx9 .. .. 2 9 _ 12/24 ft. .. .. 31/37x4 .. 2 7 nilditt. .. .. 19/20x9 .. .. 2 8* 12/23 ft. .. .. 28/31x4 ~ 28 12/23 ft. .. .. 18x9 .. .. 2 7 12/34§£t. ■ .. .. 25/28x4 .. 2 8 12/23 ft. .. .. 16x9 .. .. 2 6 13/24 ft. .. .. 21/24x4 .. 2 8 16 & 16ft. .. .. 15/16x9 .. .. 2 6 12/24lft. .. .. 18/20x4 .. 2 7 m/23ft. .. .. 14x9 .. .. 2 8 10/30|ft. .. .. 12/13x4 .. 2 6 ld/24ft. .. .. 17/38x8 .. .. 2 8 10/30 ft. .. .. 8/10x4 ~ 2 6 13/23 ft. .. .. 15/16x8 .. .. 2 7 12/24 ft. .. -. 21/26x3- .. 2 8 IU/23ft. .. .. 14x8 .. .. 'I 7 12/22 ft. .. .. 19/20x3 .. 2 7 1221 ft. .. .. 15/18x7 .. .. 2 8 7/23Jft. .. .. 18 x 3 .» 8 6 12/23 ft. .. .. 22/23x6 .. .. 2 9 7/33Jft. .. •• 8&10x3 ... 2 6 11/23 ft. .. .. 19/20x6 .. .. 2 7 20 logs Kauri pine— 11/ktft. .. .. 18/20x5 .. .. 2 7 15/21 Jft. .. .. avg. 27m. ~ 22t03 9} • 12/22 ft. .. .. 15/16x5 .. .. 2 5 avg. aboot2 6 To ensure the Propectus being forwarded to all Country Districts throughout New Zealand, the time for receiving Applications for Shares has been extended to SATURDAY 4th AUGUST.

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