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Ha a ’ ■' ai C3l dream . /I _L— ~z. —, ~ HBW down ■HHw earth Zealand was har,il J' more than a dream , ! .y : though suggested by an English expert, 'j / . William Adamson. Today after years of \ Bly/' ‘ BSSlSfereL imaginative planning by foresters, engin- 1V IMSreigilHßj*jy eers and paper experts Kaingaroa State Forest, fifty miles long and twenty wide, / clothes the pumice plains and the Tasman WsdtejSS,, project has given substance to the dream. Sir James Fletcher has been the moving spirit in the organisation of Tasman Pulp i ! and Pttper Company Limited, whose 1 integrated* mills at Kawerau in the Bay of 'S<zX I Plenty, will begin production of newsprint, sw kraft pulp and sawn timber in mid-1955. Tasman is a public company with an authorised share capital of £6,000,000. The Crown has subscribed for one million shares and the Fletcher Organisation for seven hundred thousand; and from time to time the public will be invited to take up shares and debentures. In the meantime the balance of the finance required to complete construction and commence produc* tion is assured by a financial agreement with the Government. PULP AND PAPER COMPANY LIMITED ■ ■Jr In the Tasman project newsprint, kraft pulp and timber mills are integrated for economy in f■/U'RwCTb I capital and operating costs and profitable use of •* 1 whole range of raw material available. (jKew Zealand’s Greatest Industrial Project .11-2

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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27426, 12 August 1954, Page 16

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Page 16 Advertisements Column 7 Press, Volume XC, Issue 27426, 12 August 1954, Page 16

Page 16 Advertisements Column 7 Press, Volume XC, Issue 27426, 12 August 1954, Page 16