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TELE8RA1S
POWELUSiNG COMMISSION
TO REPORT NEXT WEEN
Procass a Failure
- MELBOURNE, Saturday.
The report of the Commission on
powellised timbers will probably be
presented to the House of Repr<mita-
tives next week. The Commission has
gone extensively into the practical
tests- made of this process in New Zea
land, New South Wales, and West.Aus--
tralia. The conclusion arrived at as
regards powellising white pine in New
Zealand will be in all likelihood that
it was a total failure. .The New South.
Wales test of 2000 sleepers was also a
poor recommendation of the process,
! which had tended to damage, rather
j than improve the tiiriber. The Victo
rian te3t of mountain ash . sleepers
cannot be regarded , as . -concluded,
though, so far as the evidence 'goes,
it- is - riot in favor of the process, while
timbers powellised for Ateock ; arid , Go.
and Defence Department . gave definite
proof that the treatment hwd. been'-in-
1 jiir'ious. The West AustraKan evidence
j was of a Conflicting nature: Proper
J records of the test had not. been, kept,
j and in other respects little' reliance
could be' placed on them. The Com-
mission will probably report that there
was riot sufficient justification for en
tering into such an extensive contract
for " the supply of powellised sleepers
for a great "national- undertaking
while jarrah, which is perfectly satis
factory in all respects, was available.
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