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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9116, 26 July 1888, Page 3

* • '*'■*•' ■ " '• ■ | '*■i: ' , . r. ' ■. : . | 1 Helensville Timber Company, Limited. This mill is on ; the bank of the Kftipara River, at Helensville. There are also Retail MoUnfc Eden Railway; Station, and at ./•• Christchurch, N.Z., and i Railway-siding from the Mill to Auckland and Helensville Railway. Stock to be taken at ' valuation. v ' 'J, : ■ /■< : .j. Hokianga Saw Mill Company, Limited, including wharf 440 feet long, capable of berthing three vessels. "< Messrs. Whiteiato and Day.' Sawmill at Hikurangi, Whangarei. There is three-quarters of a mile of Tramway on this property. ; ~ . Mr. Henry Brett. Over 4000-acres Freehold Land, with , Tramways, etc. ; Port Fitzroy Timber Company, Great Barrier Island. Including nearly 6000 acres, of Freehold Land. Several creeks discharge into Fitzroy Harbour on West Coast of the Island, thus providing cheap transport for logs from the bush to the Mill. " Messrs. Bradley and Mander, Kaiwaka. There is a Tramway laid down from Bush to bring out logs. Several business contracts tire also to be assigned to the Company. Stocks to be taken at specified rates. Messrs. W. B. Jackson & Co. Limited, Pupuke. Freehold Lands and Bush. Mr. W. B. Jackson, Pupuke. Freehold Land and Bush. Mr. E. T. Dufaur, Solicitor, Auckland. About 2,260 acres Freehold Land and Bush. Whangaroa Rafting Company, Whangaroa. Whangaroa Saw-Mill Company, Whangaroa. The Kauri Timber Company acquires the whole of the shares in these companies. KJ. ■ •/ , ;t_" Mr. William Meikle, Mercury Bay. Including about 1,800 acres Leasehold Land and Bush. Mr. John Trounson. Freehold Lands and Bush. Besides the foregoing, the Company acquires Contracts made with the following Companies and persons, for the sale of timber on their properties to be Cut and Supplied at specified rates per 100 feet, viz.■ Messrs. Lane and Brown, Whangaroa. Including the right on stated terms to prohibit them from selling Land and Timber for five years. Kaihu Valley Railway Co., Limited. Under this contract) Advances are to be made by the Company on completion of the Ist Section of Railway, of £15,000 at 6 per cent, per annum on legal security being given over the Lands selected by the Railway Company under their agreement with the Crown, and on completion of the 2nd Section, a further sum of £10,000 on the same terms, provision being made for a proportionate reduction of the mortgage moneys out of any sale* of Land by the Railway Company. Mr. James Christie. Contract to Supply Timber, at per 100 feet. Messrs. Hare Brothers. Contract to Supply Timber, at per 100 feet.

If not useful to us, it would be to posterity ?-Yes ; and it is the most useful timber I have ever come across anywhere. It is useful for housebuilding, for ship-building, for rolling-stock of every description; in fact, for every purpose you can put timber kauri is useful. Is it subject to white ants ?-I do not think so. We have no white ants in New Zealand, so I do not know whether it is subject to them or not; but I think not. It is full of resin. Would you recommend the planting of kauri, then, in preference to any other pine?— Yes. Ido not know a more useful tree in the world. I might say that the question of New Zealand Timber has been written about by Dr. Hector over there ; and if it would be any use to you, I might get one of his reports. In a Report by Messrs. Ransome and Co., on the practical tests of Colonial Timbers in connection with the Colonial and Indian Exhibition at Stanley "Works, King's Road, Chelsea, October Bth, 1886, the following remarks appear " Kauri (Dammara Australia).—This s undoubtedly the best of all soft - woods. During the trials, a door was constructed, casks made, straight and circular mouldings struck, match-boarding prepared, and engineers' patterns built. For all the above purposes the practical men who witnessed the trials agreed that the wood was perfect. It planes across the end of the grain quite as well and smoothly as with it; it stains weli, takes a good polish, and would be valuable for bedroom furniture. This timber has been imported regularly into this country, though in rather small quantities, for several years past; the last cargo was sold for from 3s. to 3s. Gd. per cubic foot. The tree, which is found in the Province of Auckland only, attains a height of 120 feet, with a maximum diameter of 15 feet. The plank sent to be experimented on was 5 feet 6 inches wide, absolutely clear of knots and shakes, and apparently as true as when first sawn from the log." In a Report on the Durability of New Zealand Timbers in Constructive works, prepared for the New Zealand Government by Mr T. Ki'k, F.L.S., it is stated with regard to Kauri "The kauri is the finest tret In New Zealand, and produces the most valuable timber. It is restricted to the northern part of the North Island, and does not occur in any quantity south of a line drawn from Port Waikato to Tauranga, although solitary trees or small groups are found its Jar south as Maketu on the east coast, and on the west. It < ' uaa tiMheukft it* n*. to 166 Ml and c§w , «wumtr,k.