Present and future prospects of timber in Tasmania

Paper read by W. Heyn, Timber Department, Admiralty Harbour Works, Dover, at a Meeting of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 29th April, 1901.To give you some idea of the magnitude of this work, only as far as the timber required in its construction is concerned, I give you the quantities which can be regarded as the minimum required before it is completed :—Hardwoods, principally greenheart and rockelm, 25,000 cubic feet, and softwood, pitch-pine, redwood, &c., 75,000 cubic feet for permanent work; and for merely temporary staging, 550,000 cubic feet bluegum and other hardwood; and pitch pine, &c., for superstructure, 700,000 cubic feet; so that an undertaking which will consume some 27,000 to 30,000 loads, or 1,500,000 cubic feet, in its construction, is not a matter which any timber-producing country can regard with indifference.