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AT a recent meeting of the Royal Society of Arts, Maj. J. R. Cosgrove of the Forest Products Research Laboratory read a paper entitled?Empire Timbers, with special reference to their Uses for Furniture and Decoration? (J. Roy. Soc. Arts, vol. 80, No. 4136, Feb. 26, 1932). In introducing the lecturer, the chairman, Sir Richard Allison, said that the lecture was opportune, since?in all directions British citizens are faced with the demand to?Buy British?. With such a commodity as timber apparently much propaganda is necessary to bring home to potential users the possibilities of Empire supplies, and also the beauties of the many woods available for decorative and furniture purposes.? He added that for several years past the architects at the Office of Works have concentrated entirely on Empire hardwoods, having satisfied themselves that all their requirements in connexion with buildings can be adequately met by Empire supplies. It is most satisfactory to have such a declaration publicly made, and it would appear to give force to the opinion recently expressed in these columns that the forest services of the Empire require strengthening rather than curtailment, in order to be able to give an answer to the question as to whether supplies of the, at present, mostly unknown timbers could be extracted in sufficient amounts and placed on the markets at an economic price. Without this certainty, it will remain difficult to overcome old-established preferences.
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Utilisation of Empire Timbers. Nature 130, 175–176 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130175b0
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