SUPPLY OF TELEGRAPH POLES TO THE POST OFFICE, 345 
p- 187, of the Minutes of Evidence given before the Forestry 
Committee of 1goz. 
The current Post Office specification for foreign poles is 
appended. 
Specification of Telegraph Poles. 
Description.—Swedish, Norwegian, Finland, or Russian red fir 
(Pinus sylvestris), sound, hard-grown (z.¢., well-hearted, and with 
the annular rings closely pitched), straight, free 
from large or dead knots, especially knots forming 
a complete ring, and from other defects, and to 
have the outer and under bark completely re- 
moved. 
To have been felled when the sap is down, and 
in no case earlier than the rst of November 190 
or later than the rst of March 190 
Each pole to contain the natural butt of the 
tree, z.¢., to be sawn off as close to the ground as 
possible, and no timber whatever to be removed 
at the butt end, or trimmed or cut away from the 
butt end, so as to reduce its natural size, but this 
end to be sawn to give a flat section, as shown in 
the adjoining sketch. 
Dimensions to be in accordance with the subjoined Table. 
Mode of Delivery.—All poles to be delivered carriage free, 
either— 
(2) Upon the wharf of the Creosoters; or 
(4) Upon some other wharf, if so directed by the Postmaster 
General; or 
(c) Into lighters provided by the Creosoters, if it be im- 
possible for the vessel to come alongside their wharf ; 
or 
(2d) Into railway trucks provided by the Creosoters at the 
place of delivery, if the creosoting works are not 
accessible by water carriage; or 
(e) Into waggons or timber carriages provided by the 
Creosoters at the place of delivery. 
Nore.— The cost of delivery as above may be taken as approxt- 
mately equivalent to an addition of one shilling and threepence 
per load on c.tf. terms, except in London, where two-thirds 
of the cost ts borne by the Creosoter. 
If the poles have to be floated or immersed in water after 
