TIMBER GRADING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 27 May 1944, Page 2

TIMBER GRADING

MINISTERS STATEMENT ON NEW REGULATIONS T . Wellington, Mav 25. Referring to-night to a notice under the Timber Emergency Regulations which has just been gazetted, the Minister of Supply and Munitions (the Hon D G. Sullivan) said that as a result of evidence given in recent legal proceedings against a timber merchant in Christchurch, which disclosed differences of opinion on the classification and grading of building timber, some ■uneasiness was prevalent in the minds of builders and timber users in general regarding the quality of timber received fby them under certain trade The Minister said that the national grading rules issued bv the Standards Institute in 1938 set out clearly a convenient mrthod of classifying and grading building timbers, and was at present used and strictly observed by the greater proportion of sawmillers and timber merchants throughout the Dominion However, it appeared that there had been some producers and resellers who. while adopting the grade nameg established by these rules did not sell their timber according to the that purchasers be protected aeainst definitions therein. It was desirable the delivery of grades lower than those specified by the rules, and it had been decided to afford this protection by enabling the Timber Controller to institute such inspectional and other measures as were necessary to secure observance of the rules by all concerned. The new notice provides that totara. matai, rimu. and miro building timbers shall not be disposed of unless classified and graded in accordance with the national grading rules.