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The following -tatoniont was published in the Tress in January, 1905, 

 under the authority of the Minister for Lands: 



.vr/'/'M" or inmrAvoon i\ \r;\\~ sorrii ir,i/./;x. 



The Minister for Lands having observed that the Commercial Agent in 

 London had been informed that it would take New South Wales twelve months 

 to supply an order for Jon.niiO feet of Rosewood, lied and Black Bean mixed, 

 and having reirard to the fact that the supply of Rosewood a timber eminently 

 suitable for furniture work is stated in .Maiden's "Commercial Timbers of 

 New South Wales" to be "practically unlimited.'' the Minister lias caused 

 inquiry to be made, with the result that one saw-miller in the Bellingeu district 

 has intimated that he will undertake to supply 30.000 feet of Rosewood a 

 mouth, while another offers to supply l'.~0.(M)n feet of this timber per annum. 

 One fores; oiiicer in the northern district says an order for liOO.iMlu feet of 

 Rosewood could be execnied in bis district in a very short time: and yet 

 another one reports that in three places alone in his district there are about 

 ],-..< M MUlOO f.et available. 



The Minister has directed that this information shall be at once conveyed 

 to the Commercial Agent. 



The following extracts from a report are interesting: 



"Referring to your circular letter dated 2< ; ,th November. 11)04. asking to 

 be furnished with a report on the statement made to the Commercial 

 Agent in London that it would take twelve months to supply an order 

 of 200JMM) feet of Rosewood, Black I'.ean, &<.. I have the honour to 

 report that the statement is not correct, as on Forest reserve No. 

 .')1M3O, county of Bnller. there is an area of 4 miles by o densely 

 covered with the best kinds of Rosewood, containing at the very lowest 

 estimate ."..OOO.OOO superficial feet of matured timber. 



"In the parishes of Core, Acacia, and Koreela, county of Buller, there is 

 an estimated quantity of matured Rosewood of !).OOO.OOO superficial 

 feet, and in the parish of Beaury. county of Buller. .'{.riOO.oon siiporlicial 

 feet, to say nothing of numbers of other parishes all along the Eastern 

 Fall that contain quantities of this timber. 



"I forward an offer from the manager of the Federal Sawmill Company 

 of New South Wales to deliver, f.o.b.. at Brisbane. LMO.OOO feet per 

 annum, and if any inducement, were offered, two further mills could 

 be erected and each supply the same annual output near the Queens- 

 land border at a railway station named Dugandau. in Queensland. 



"In addition to Rosewood. I estimate that 20,000,000 feet of the following 

 matured timbers could be supplied for export purposes at the Queens- 

 land border, vi/. : Silky Oak. Tulipwood, Red and Black Bean. Native 

 (liiava. White Cherry. Bonewood. Onionwood. Maiden's Blush, Tama- 

 rind. Cudirorio. Teak. Yellow-wood. Stavewood. Coachwood, &c.. to say 

 nothing of Cedar and Hoop Pine. 



"It only requires some inducement to open up an enormous trade with the 

 _ world in these excessively valuable timbers, which would find 

 enormous employment and revenue, to the State." 



The following letter is written hy a well-known timber expert: 

 I have pleasure in assuring you that the supply of this particular orna- 

 mental and valuable timber (Rosewood! is practically unlimited, extending 

 over almost all the high land in the Eastern Division of this State, and I have 

 little doubt when its undoubted value becomes known abroad. Rosewood will 

 be found to be one of the largest exported of softwoods from New South 

 Wales. At present the price given for Rosewood is too low to pay teamstew 

 to .haul it : but I can assure you there is a plentiful supply to be got, and no 

 doubt the price will be given later on, when it has proved its great value 

 abroad. 



Following is the opinion of a Forest Officer: 



All that is required to find custom for this lovely wood is to dispatch a 

 million or so of superficial feet of thoroughly matured timber to London or 

 Cernaany; no other introduction is required. Its fame will soon be established 



