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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 214, 24 August 1927, Page 3

A Christchurch timber merchant on examining a shipment of Oreeon doors imported from America, and landed on Wednesday, found the cases riddled with borer. Interviewviewed. the merchant stated that this was the first occasion on which his firm had noticed the borer in imported timber. An investigation of the cases revealed the unmistakeable work of this dangerous pest. Every case was riddled with borer holes about the size of a threepennv-bit. Although the doors were untouched, the manager stated that it would be only a matter of time before the soft Oregon timber would be affected. As the American Oregon is slightly cheaper than New Zealand red nine, there was a keen demand bv the public for the imported timber A Christchurch builder who was oresent stated that at the request of a man for whom he was building a house he bad used a good deal of American Oregon. After a few years the wood became riddled with borer. “A most disquieting feature is the danger of this borer getting into the standing forests in New Zealand, and I think it onlv right that the public should awaken to the danger of using this imported timber, and that action be taken to have i+ excluded from New Zealand,’’ stated the merchant.