Well, time for an update on this topic!

Contacted my supplier asking for the drying details and they sent me the Health & Safety details!!! D'oh.

They also sent me the contact details for their wood supplier ~ So I wrote to them.

They wrote back today. My wood is all ok to the approprate listings on the link up top here

None of it is stamped though, so I will have to sort something out with that, but it is all ok to take! yay!!!

We brought all our antique furniture in no problem even one piece that had wood worn of old that was treated. All sailed through and we have several pieces.

Don't worry, if it's for packaging, get some wood stain and paint it. MAF only seem interested if it's bare, untreated wood. If it's stained or varnished, they don't look twice.

Most customs around the World will want to see the appropriate certification on all wood packaging material, hence why plastics are now used.
Furniture does not come into the same catagory of infestation risk.

I've just bought garden furniture, household furniture and 2 crates that were used to protect my tool boxes. The garden furniture was inspected for cleanliness, the household furniture wasn't even looked at (as expected) and the tool box crates were simply discarded in order to view the contents. No interest or mention of certificates.

It's the chance I suppose. One container of machine parts I sent to Boashan docks at Shanghai was refused entry when timber used for blocking was found to be unidentified and not matching certification. The whole 20 footer was sent on return vessel. The transport/packers picked up the £2k tab but I picked up the pain!....56 days round trip.

My bike arrived in wooden crate no problems there.
friends had wooden stuff in their container, no problems there either.
dont be so twitchy about it

http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/impor...ging-ihs.htm#3

I guess it all boils down to what kind of day the MAF inspector is having!

Well, apparantly I have a letter (At my parents) saying that all the wood is heated to a "time-temperature schedule that achieves a minimum temperature of 56°C for a minimum duration of 30 continuous minutes throughout the entire profile of the wood (including at its core)."

So as far as that goes, I have done that and can prove it through reciepts and the letter from the forest people. If I get the wood stamped appropratly I will have no problems so that is my plan now I know that it is heat treated appropratly.