TIMBER FOR BUILDING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19453, 8 October 1926, Page 11

TIMBER FOR BUILDING.

CONDITIONS IN AMERICA. NEW ZEALANDER'S VIEWS. A. ans N.Z. PERTH, Oct. 7. Mr. R. .T. Jackson, manager of a large timber business 11 New Zealand, who was a passenger by the Orvieto, which reached Fremantle to-day from London, said that notwithstanding the use of iron and concrete in the construction of buildings, the consumption of timber continued to rise. In Canada Mr. Jackson said he devoted practically the whole of his time to a study of the timber industry. The forests were being cut out and owing to the prolific natural growth scientific afforestation had not been undertaken on a large scale. It Was a remarkable fact that cities on the Atlantic coast in the United States were the world's largest importers of timber. Although there were practically inexhaustible forests on the Pacific coast the freight from that coast through the Panama Canal added to the cost of timber to the purchaser to such an extent that it was cheaper to import timber from the Continent. Longer lengths were not procurable in Europe. Constructional timber must rise in commercial value because it was a product which could not bo manufactured.