TIMBER TRADE.
«i Editor Times, — Having been connected with a timber trade in Tasmania of £30,000 per month, and thus conversant with the products or the East, South, and West Coasts, I may claim some small acquaintance with the subject. Your correspondent " J. S. Tl" is equally well informed with Atticus, and equally ignorant, as during seventeen years here, I do not remember to have seen a stick of white gum imported, and' very littlo ~ of swamp gum. The last mentioned is fully equal to blue gum for durability, and especially as against damp, and for pile or bridge purposes, but neither bf the kinds he mentions can be mistaken for blue gum or passed off for it by reason of resemblance. Let me inform "J. S. L." that Tasmanian timber decays from the outside only, and if "J. S. L.'s" knowledge of Australian bush regulations is equal to his acquaintance with Tasmanian timber, the sooner he is associated with the Ministry of the day in settling the fiscal regulations of the country the better, as he is by far too valuable a man to remain in the obscurity of Long Bush. — 1 am, &c, Stringy Bark.
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Southland Times, Issue 3312, 31 January 1879, Page 3
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