PAPER FROM N.Z. PULP

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 243, 26 July 1947, Page 2

PAPER FROM N.Z. PULP

SUCCESSFUL TRIALS IN AUSTRALIA (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 25. Successful paper manufacturing trials with pulp prepared from New Zealand grown insignis pine, have been completed in Australia. Some 1 of the paper has been shipped to New Zealand as newsprint and was about to be used in experimental printing by most of the daily newspapers in the country while further supplies are now being converted into cement bags and would be shipped to the Dominion later. Announcing the results of the tests to-day the Commissioner of State Forests (the Hon. C. F. Skinner) said that trials had shown a definite promise that a high grade product could be obtained from New Zealand grown wood and paper produced for cement bags had received favourable comment. Because a Tasmanian mill which manufactured newsprint had no equipment to remove dirt from the pulp the newsprint had some specks in it, said Mr Skinner. It was also impossible to secure the necessary dye to improve the colour and the newsprint was therefore its natural pale cream shade Good quality bond bank cream wove and M.F. printing paper had aiso been produced, the first two from insignis pine pulp find the others from a mixture of insignis pine and eucalyptus pulp.