MARKET FOR THINNINGS
“Incentive To Grow Pine” If the paper-making plant which Forest Products planned to install in Canterbury used South Island timber it would be an incentive to land-owners to grow conifers, said the Conservator of Forests in Christchurch (Mr A. N. Sexton) yesterday. “A pulp mill will take all dimensions of timber,” said Mr Sexton. “This means that'people can sell thinnings, which otherwise cannot be easily marketed, and that will make them thin their trees and let them grow properly.” If the company planned eventually to draw its supplies of timber from all parts of tho South Island there should be sufficient available, he said. “But they may have plans to establish their own plantations.” Mr A. W. Grayburn, forest assistant for the Selwyn Plantation Board, said the announcement was*a complete surprise to the board. “This is something we’ve wanted for years,” he said. “Trees don’t grow so large here as they do in the North Island and South Island conifers are ideal for pulping. “We and all local bodies which own plantations have large quantities of small-sized material and otherwise there is no demand for it” Mr Grayburn said the Selwyn Plantation Board had about 11,000 acres of
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29052, 14 November 1959, Page 12
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