TREES FOR POWER POLES
The suitability of Now Zealand-grown timbers for electric power poles was examined in a paper read to the Electric Supply Authority Engineers' conference in Wellington by its author. Mr. A. Buckingham (North Canterbury). "New Zealand is a country eminently suitable for growing timber trees," he said. We cannot profitably reproduce the indigenous trees as they are very slow in coming to economic maturity, but there remain the numerous exotics, principally conifers and euealypts, which grow with remarkablo rapidity," he stated. " Unfortunately, rapidity of growth generally results'in softer and less durable timber. If however, preservative treatment of these timbers can be cfleeted easily and thoroughly, as for Ihe coniferous timbers of the Northern Hemisphere, there becomes available a new source of pole timber fulfilling all technical requirements
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23145, 17 September 1938, Page 18
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