Abstract
SINCE the War, most States possessing forests of any importance have, owing to a greater world demand or greater competition, been engaged in an endeavour to place their commercial timbers on foreign marketsor, in some cases, in attempts to develop an interior market. Research officers have been studying the properties and uses of the principal commercial timbers of the country concerned with the object of providing purchasers and users with the necessary information in a concise form. Australia has been engaged on research in this direction at the Division of Forest Products. Pamphlet No. 47, Properties of Australian Timbers (1) (Government Printer, Melbourne, 1933) by H. E. Dadswell, has recently appeared. This first part of the series deals with the timbers of the genus Eucalyptus which are known as the Ash Group. The real value of this type of research in most countries with forest resources is correctly enunciated by Mr. I. H. Boas, chief of the Division of Products: Many Commercial timbers in Australia occur only in amounts which can supply local marketsothers would supply a limited overseas demand and still others are capable of supplying a large export market. The species treated of in the pamphlet of the so-called Îsh Group are Eucalyptus regnans, gigantea, obliqua, sieberiana, fastigiata, oreades, frax-inoides and consideniana.
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Commercial Timbers of Australia. Nature 134, 354 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134354d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/134354d0