SWAMP KAURI
POOR TIMBER EXPORTED
,EXPERIENCE IN AUSTRALIA
PROVES PEACTICALLY WORTHLESS.
(United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received 6th December, noon.) SYDNEY, This Day. In a paper read boforo the Royal Society, Mr. M. B. Welch, B.Sc, pointed out that owing to the shortage of New Zealand kauri a considerable amount of timbor was being nulled from buried logs taken from swamps and shipped to Sydney. Although it appeared of excellent quality, on drying it warped badly and ruptured across the grain. Tests showed that' it was only a third as strong as sound kauri. This swamp kauri was in most cases practically worthless and should be avoided.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 136, 6 December 1926, Page 9
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105SWAMP KAURI Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 136, 6 December 1926, Page 9
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