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Correction Daily Timber News

14 August 2014
In our last Daily Timber News service we promoted an engineered wood function that was to be held in New Zealand. This function will, in fact, be held in the Brisbane suburb of Hamilton.
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Recycled timber to fuel food farm

07 August 2014
Recycled timber from construction and demolition sites is to be used to fuel a multi-million dollar food farm in Victoria. Source: Yahoo7
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National Trust national tree register

07 August 2014
An email doing the rounds pleads for people to stop cutting down trees. Included is a photograph of a line of 15 dogs queuing to lift their legs on a solitary specimen in a field. Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
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Safety first for NZ workers then money

07 August 2014
The country's forest industry needs to provide an environment of steady, safe, well-paid employment in a better regulated environment in order to save workers' lives, according to NZ Council of Trade Unions president Helen Kelly. Sources: Stuff NZ, The Nelson Mail
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New Zealand engineered wood seminar

07 August 2014
Make the connection: use engineered wood products to do more with less is the name of a seminar to be held in New Zealand that covers topics from design, uses to specification of engineered wood products. Source: Timberbiz
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Revised Australian Forestry Standard announced

07 August 2014
Australian Forestry Standard has announced that the revised Australian Standard for Chain of Custody for forest products has been published. Source: Architecture & Design
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Farm Forestry: Getting on with business

07 August 2014
Private Forests Tasmania’s annual Farm Forestry Seminars will be held in Burnie and Launceston during August. The first will be in Burnie on 13 August followed by a seminar in Launceston on 14 August. Source: Timberbiz
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Subsidised thinning under scrutiny

07 August 2014
Taxpayers are being asked to subsidise logging in four ecologically sensitive state conservation areas in northern NSW, according to the recommendations of a draft report of the Natural Resources Commission. Source: Sydney Morning Herald
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New Forests out of race for FEA

07 August 2014
New Forests is believed to be out of the race to buy Forest Enterprises Australia, with sources suggesting that RMS — the world’s second-largest timber management company — has positioned itself as the successful buyer. Source: The Australian
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Recognising importance of forestry industry

07 August 2014
Senator Richard Colbeck, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, is visiting forestry operations near Maryborough in regional Queensland this week. Source: Timberbiz
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