The News Review:
- Top-grade Tasmanian timber sold to plywood mill
- TARMAC: Mazda to enter Targa Tasmania
- New Tasmanian irrigation pipe to start flowing this month
Top-grade Tasmanian timber sold to plywood mill
ABC nline
The high-quality Australian sawlogs are usually used to make solid boards used in construction or furniture-making but the Malaysian-owned Ta Ann Veneer mill peels away slices of the timber to make lower quality products. Under the Tasmanian Government’s original agreement with the mill sawlogs could not be used but Forestry Tasmania says no-one else wanted to buy the top-grade timber.
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TARMAC: Mazda to enter Targa Tasmania
Motorsport.com
Two Mazda3 MPS performance hatchbacks and a turbocharged Mazda RX-8 SProtary sports coupe will headline Mazda’s biggest attack on TargaTasmania in over a decade. Not content to merely make up the numbers Mazda has secured a top notchdriver line-up that will ensure all three Mazda Motorsport-prepared racecars perform at their peak. Targa Tasmania 2008 winner South Australian Steve Glenney will give theMazda RX-8 SP its motorsport debut. He will be partnered with hisco-driver of four years Bernie Webb and be competing in the ModernCompetition.
New Tasmanian irrigation pipe to start flowing this month
ABC nline
The $6 million pipeline has been funded by farmers to take water to the Macquarie Settlement area south of Cressy. The water will be used to irrigate about 7000 hectares. Chairman of the the Macquarie Settlement Pipeline group Rob Bayles says it will secure the future of the area. “Probably what drove the community to build it was the potential we had to get ourselves cheap water against everything else that was being made available” he says.