N.Z. INSTITUTE OF PACKAGING

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29008, 24 September 1959, Page 9

N.Z. INSTITUTE OF PACKAGING

Address On Pulp Industry

(tiew Zealand Hjess Association) DUNEDIN, Sept. 23.

Pulp and paper manufacture supported by an efficient converting industry could, if given assistance from the Government, develop into an industry second only to farming in its capacity for earning overseas funds, Mr M. L. Hobday, general manager of Whakatane Board Mills, Ltd., told delegates to the conference of the New Zealand Institute of Packaging this morning. Mr Hobday said the establishment of such an industry took many years, and without liberal assistance from the Government and customers, the road would remain hard.

The Government should realise the potential of the pulp, paper and board-making Industry in New Zealand, he said, and should encourage investment for expansion by the provision of taxation relief.

Mr Hobday said New Zealand must seek to banish some of its unpleasant practices in food marketing. Potatoes, the skins of which would ultimately be thrown away, could be bought wrapped in polythene bags, while bread, the crust of which many ate “with special relish” often passed “from one sweaty hand to another” before reaching the table. There was the hope, he said, that in the future milk would be delivered in a paperboard package, made doubly sterile during manufacture and waxing