NEW ZEALAND TIMBERS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16923, 11 April 1929, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND TIMBERS

WANTED FOR AUSTRALIAN FURNITURE “Wo would he glad if some of your people would send us samples of your wood. We are always on the look-out for good woods for furniture.” Mr. D. H. Rhodes, managing director of Rhodes and Co., the leading furniture makers in Brisbane, made these remarks in Auckland. He said that the Australian timber 'people were against New Zealand woods being imported,, but he felt sure that many of the New Zealand timbers would be excellent for furniture. He admitted that some kauri was used, but he’thought that woods like the rimu would find tt market in Australia. Most of the Queensland furniture was made from silky oak, which was grown fcn the north. “Queensland is depressed at the present time, but I think that could bo applied to the whole of Australia,” Mr. Rhodes remarked. “Droughts and strikes have done it. “What Queensland is trying to do at the present time is to bring master and man closer together. By holding round-Hio-table conferences we hope to get away from that feeling of mistrust. We want a ‘give-and-take’ policy.” Mr. Rhodes said that now the drought had broken in Queensland the position was brighter. Before he left Brisbane, he met a child aged seven who had just seen rain for the first time. ■—Sun.