TIMBERS OF NEW SOUTH WALES 225 



All the above red gum timbers are used in general 

 building work, railway sleepers, shipbuilding, and wood 

 paving. 



White Stringy Bark (E. eugenoides) is one of the most 

 durable of Australian timbers and does not split at the ends 

 when exposed to the sun like most of the others. Much 

 used for fencing and posts, though owing to large gum veins 

 it does not make good sleepers, planking, or scantling ; it is 

 proof to some extent against white ant. The same timber 

 is found in Queensland. The colour is a warm brown. 



Woollybutt (E. longifolia) is another timber of the jarrah 

 class and colour ; somewhat like red ironbark in appearance, 

 but deficient in strength and elasticity. It is used for 

 house-building, fencing, and wheelwrights' work generally. 

 The tree attains a height of 100 to 150 ft. and 3 to 5 ft. 

 diameter. 



Weight about 63 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



Turpentine (Syncarpia laurifolia) , a tree which attains a 

 height of 150 to 200 ft. and a diameter of 3 to 5 ft. Used 

 for piles on rivers and harbours infested with the teredo, or 

 " cobra," as it is called in Australia, often with the bark on ; 

 this protection is, nevertheless, only temporary in any water 

 where the sea worm is active. 1 Quite recently Mr. H. D. 

 Walsh, M.I.C.E., has stated that turpentine was the only 

 Australian timber which resisted the teredo at all. 2 Either 

 in dry or wet state this timber is shunned by the white ants 

 in most situations, and it will not readily burn. It quickly 

 dulls the teeth of saws. The timber varies in colour from 



1 According to ah article in the Railway Aye for January 31st, 1908, 

 turpentine withstands the sea worm in the Philippines better than 

 creosoted oregon. 



2 The Engineer, October llth, 1907. 



T. O 



