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A TanLE showing the relative Strength, Weight, &c., of some of the most 
useful Woods indigenous to the North Island of New Zealand.* 
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Name or Prant, og Woop. * T 
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y g $ ET 3 
x $ E] £ ES 3 
Botanical Name. Maori Name. - E Ey "i g 
> an a = E a 
lbs. oz 
Dammara australis , Kauri ... p] 90 99 | 102 25 403 
T (best: specimen) Ex m] d Sa 26 13 | :429 
Podo! Tota: : 49 61 57 39 5| -629 
Podocarpus daerydioides Kahikatea 54 68 85 31 49 
Dacrydium eupressin Rim 90 81 95 34 6| -560 
Podocarpus re ... | Mataii 73 67 61 wee 
ocarpus ferr CIIM a See ae i E 48 4| -772 
Phyllocladus ldcicnncM das ... | Tanekaha ..| 98 | 103 | 134 86 7 | -583 
Vitex littoralis ... e DO PEHME 6. ref 200 ]|100 | 100 52 5| :837 
ptospermum scoparium < ... | Manuka DE cua Vis me 57 9| 921 
Metrosideros tomentosa ..|Pohutukawa ... | 126 | 109 94 52 2 | :834 
Metrosideros robus > ta e] O8 | 108 | 188 
Edwardsi ndiflora .. | Kowhai 43 13 | -701 
W mos Towai . 43 6 | ‘674 
Weinmannia sylvicola Tawhero 93 96 99 
Dysoxylum spectabile ... | Kohekohe 81 72 0 
Tetranthera calicaris Tangeao oo. } 419 | 160 
Knightia excelsa Rewarewa 54 60 53 15 83 
Olea cunninghamii Maireraunui 4 549 
N p a Tawa 35 
Nesodaphne taraire . Taraire z 35 12 | -572 
Dodonæa viscosa i a IAN. a HAE pum us a 3 |L011 
ape australis es iy PEINE .. el 8 92 | 108 d. ae 
Norr. —The first three columns of — a. from = Chureh Almanac for 1847 in which Vi 
littoralis omp n. e last two columns are from W. W. Saunders's Mis 
logue, in * eret of heap Exhibition, 1 1851. 
* See, ‘The Results of a Series of Experiments on the Strength of New Zealand and other Colonial 
Woods ;’ da James x. "Balo our, C.E.; Appendix C., Jurors’ Reports of the New Zealand Exhibition, 1865. 
P.S.—The writer of this Essay wishes to return his best thanks to those 
few gentlemen who so kindly and promptly responded to his appeal to them. 
He would most partieularly thank His Honor the Superintendent of Auck- 
land (Robert Graham, Esq.) and the Chief Provincial Surveyor of that 
provinee (C. Heaphy, Esq.) ; also the gentlemen composing the Chamber of 
Commerce at Wellington. To Mr. Heaphy he is largely indebted for much 
useful information in colonial economie botany, as well as for that portion 
of the first table containing the weight and specifie gravity of woods, and 
the whole of the last table herein given. 
