Fortunes in Wood
IF SUITABLE FOR PIPES. LONDON, Jan. 20. If anyone wants to make a fortune quickly he can earn it by producing an Empire wood suitable for smokers’ pipes, an inquirer was assured. Mr William Marshall, a timber and veneer agent, said that manufacturers were looking for a material to oust Mediterranean briar and Austrian cherry wood. They have completed experiments with Australian timbers, including ncedlewood, Quandong, Wilga and tea-tree. Somo of these woods, he said, contained resin, were too soft arid spongy, and lacked cross grain. The bowls split when heated. Experts suggested that the briar might be successfully grown in Australia, as the heather family, from which it was produced in Prance, already exists in the Commonwealth,
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7068, 30 January 1933, Page 7
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