NG Timber
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Possible New Use for NG Timber
NEW GUINEA’S largest shipment of timber left Lae, New Guinea, in September for Australia. The “Nellore” was diverted to Lae to do the job.
The shipment included 180,000
super-feet of Wau pine—l4,ooo to BHP in Newcastle for general con struction, 20,000 to Sydney for battery separators and the remainder for general supplies.
A small package of sample timber for flour-mill chutes was also shipped. These chutes are usually made of yellow-pine imported from
America. If Wau pine is found) suitable for the job, it will open up} another commercial use for this tim-i ber—and another way of saving dollars.
The whole Nellore shipment wasj from the New Guinea Goldfields Co.( mill at Wau.