QUALITY OF TIMBER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 125, 27 May 1944, Page 7

QUALITY OF TIMBER

GRADING RULES MUST PE OBSERVED TIGHTENED REGULATIONS. (P.A.) Wellington, May 25. Referring to-night to a notice under the Timber Emergency Regulations which has just been gazetted, the Minister of Supply and Munitions, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, said that, as a result of evidence given in recent legal proceedings against a timber merchant in Christchurch, which disclosed differences of opinion in regard to the classification and grading of building timber, some uneasiness was prevalent in the r inds of builders and timber users in general regarding the quality of timber received by them under certain trade classification names. The Minister said the national grading rules issued by the Standards Institute. 1938, set out clearly a convenient method of classifying and grading building timbers and was at present used and strictly observed by the greater proportion of sawmillers and timber merchants throughout the Dominion. However, it appeared tha* there had been some producers and resellers who, while adopting the grade names established by these rules, did: not sell their timber according to the definitions therein. It was desirable that purchasers be protected against delivery of grades lower than those specified by the rules, and it had been decided to afford this protection by enabling lhe timber controller to institute such inspectional and other measurer, as were necessary to secure the observance oi lhe rules by all concerned. The new notice provides that tot.ara, matai, rimu and miro building timbers shall not b” disposed of unless classified and '■aiU 'l in accordance with the na- , 1 in '••.1 '•.-. rifling rules.