NEW ZEALAND TIMBER
EMPIRE SOCIETY'S REQUEST : GIFTS FOR NEW BUILDING [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON. Wednesday The Royal -Empire Society in Lonflon, said the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloa, in an address to the New Zealand Forestry League, was about to become domiciled in a new and imposing building;. It proposed to panel the "walls and construct the floors of its more important rooms , with specimens tof timber J'rom different Dominions, illustrative of their beauty of colour, durability, texture and grain. "The president of the society, Sir •Archibald Weigall, has asked me," isaid His Excellency, "to express the hope, which I do most earnestly and enthusiastically, that New Zealand will contribute -heir quota of native wood flooring and! panelling I trust that in 'complying with this request this Dominion will take the opportunity of making the Old Country better acquainted with the extreme beauty and 'durability of several of her indigenous timbers,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21868, 2 August 1934, Page 10
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