§ Dr. Littleasked the Minister of Supply whether, as timber urgently needed for housing requires a prolonged period for seasoning in the ordinary way, he will take up the matter of having timber-seasoning plants erected whereby it will be ready for building purposes in a fraction of the time at present required.
§ Mr. de RothschildA programme of modernising and extending the timber drying-kiln capacity of the country is being carried out under the auspices of the Ministry of Supply, in consultation with the Forest Products Research Laboratory, and already a considerable number of existing kilns have been brought up to date and new ones erected.