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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 August 1939, Page 11

Timber experts are losing patience with bushmen who give their own plain and fancy names to the almost innumerable types of trees seen in Australian forests says the Melbourne “Age”). The publication by the ( Standards Association of Australia of a book entitled “Nomenclature of Australian Timbers” has been hailed with delight by the division of forests products of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. In support of the publication it has been stated that “to become familiar with the number of timbers available in Australia, is dimcult enough without, the contusion added when one individual timber is named differently by different sections of the timber industry. The bushman s habit of calling a tree ‘blue gum’ when his method of recognising it is by the bluish tints on its bark or its leaves can be tolerated, even though we. familiar with the red colour of the timber. called it ‘red gum.’ But when another timber is called ‘scented satinwood.’ ‘coachwood,’ and ‘rose mahogany’ by different timber men. we begin to doubt whether there is any reason ed connection between the names.” I