LARCH PLANTATIONS
EARLY MARKETING OF TIMBER USE AS POWER POLES (Per United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH. Jan. 9. According to Mr C. Biggs, Conservator of State Forests, the marketing of timber from the larch plantations at Hanmer Springs, Conical Hills (Otago), and Rotorua is to begin this year. In Canterbury the trees are not of a size that is millable according to New Zealand standards, but the larger ones are considered suitable for telegraph poles and light power poles, and the smaller ones for trellis and rustic work, fences and log cabins. The main source of supply of power and telegraph poles up to the present has been Australian hardwoods. Australia actually finds it difficult to supply the New Zealand demand and orders are now behind, according to Mr Biggs, so that a supply of poles from the New Zealand plantations will be an asset to the country and will help to keep money in the Dominion. Although larch does not compare with Australian hardwoods for durability, it makes an effective substitute for lighter poles when treated with creosote.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23703, 10 January 1939, Page 11
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