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composing contiguous sides crossing each other at the 
cornér. I have found it convenient to class together 
house-building and carpentry, and in this I include 
cabinet-making, coach-building, and the production of 
railway sleepers, and construction and repairs of railway 
carriages and waggons. 
Having stated the measurements prescribed by the 
Instructions issued under date of 13th May, relative to the 
sizes of wood to be supplied for different applications in 
shipbuilding, I may, before proceeding further with my 
narrative, state here what sizes of wood were in these 
instructions prescribed for different purposes connected 
with house-building and carpentry. These were classified 
thus :— 
1. Large timber of pine or fir, which can be made into 
balks and beams fit to be employed i in the construction of 
mills and other great machinery. Trunks not less than 
24 feet long, and a diameter at upper end not less than 
184 dec. 
2. Logs or saw timber of pine or fir measuring not less 
than 10 inches at smallest diameter, and of lengths speci- 
fied thus—large logs not less than 24 feet long, middle 
sized logs not less than 15 feet, and lesser logs 114 feet. 
8. Building timber of pine or fir :— 
(a.) Timber with a diameter of at least 7 dec. at upper 
end, and of the following classes :—large timber, at least 
36 feet long; middle-sized timber, 30 feet long; and 
lesser timber, 24 feet. 
(b.) Rafters at least 30 feet long, with a bottom diameter 
of at least 9 dec. 
(c.) Spars at least 24 feet long, with a bottom diameter 
of at least 7 dec. ° 
4, Beams and railway sleepers. Resinous pine. Beams 
8} feet long, and 10 dec. in diameter, can be employed as 
such, even though they may have a twist. 
5. Telegraph poles of pine or fir, 5 fathoms long, with 
an upper diameter of at least 3 dec. 
6. Lathwood of pine trunk at Icast 8 feet long, freé 
