Though pinus insignis is not usually considered a suitable timber for use m Ikjusos, M'r. C. Fv. Foweraker, Who is in charge of the Canterbury School of Forestry, told a reporter 'in Christchurch that in the Wairau Valley, in Marlborough, he had recently seen a sixroomed house being built almost entirely froiii the timber of this true, which was milled on the spot. Other houses had also been pointed out to him ns having been built of insignia pine. Some of them bad been up for bO years, and seemed to be lasting well, having been wfcll painted,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17433, 4 December 1930, Page 13
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