TIMBER GRADING
PRESENT SYSTEM WASTEFUL \ MODIFICATION OF RULES SUGGESTED P.A. ROTORUA, Apl. 17. The wastage of timber by using grades which were much higher than the purpose warranted was criticised by Mr D. G. O’Toole, president of the New Zealand Timber Merchants’ Federation, at the Forestry f Conference being held at Rotorua. Timber was sold according to grading rules which had to be adhered to, said Mr O’Toole, and certain buyers, such as architects, who were not themselves users, had no other standard than the grading rules on which to work first. To adapt the rules to meet the present necessity for better utilisation could be the simplification and slight modification of them. “ These would recognise the fact that the lower grades contain a percentage of timber which is economically useable for purposes for which trade custom demands a grade carrying a higher name,” said Mr O’Toole. “What alterations should be made and what defects should be made and eased and which permitted for certain grades is a job for a special committee. It is one of the first steps that should be taken in timber utilisation in New Zealand.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26749, 19 April 1948, Page 2
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190TIMBER GRADING Otago Daily Times, Issue 26749, 19 April 1948, Page 2
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