Wood for Pencils
DISCOVERY IN AFRICA LONDON, July 9. Stimulus is likely to be given to tha pencil manufacturing trade in tha Empire as a result of recent research by the Government Forest Products Research Laboratory. A report of the laboratory, published by the Department of Scientific, and, Industrial Re-
search, has been issued by the Stationery Office. American rail cedar, after long exposure to the weather as fence rails, is supposed to be the best wood in the world for making pencils, but now supplies are running short and Britain has been casting round to see if she has a wood suitable to make good the deficiency.
As African timber had often been used, the laboratory made tests with cedar grown in Kenya and Tanganyika and found that, when steamed at pressures of from 101 b. to 401 b. per square inch and impregnated with oil, it equalled, the American timber for quality,
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 179, 1 August 1938, Page 2
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