TIMBER PLANT AT STYX

Press, Volume C, Issue 29517, 19 May 1961, Page 13

TIMBER PLANT AT STYX

Council Approves Establishment

Further details of plans to build a debarking plant for logs at Lower Styx road were submitted to the Waimairi County Council at its meeting last evening by New Zealand Plywood. Ltd. A previous application from the company to erect the building had been refused because the council considered it would constitute a fire hazard. The site of the proposed plant is close to plantations. The Fletcher Trust and Investment Company, Ltd., which was the parent company, owned a considerable area of land nearby on which trees were growing. These were being milled, said the letter from the company’s solicitors. New Zealand Plywood, Ltd., would take a lease of 10 acres of land, and all the trees on this would be felled to create space for the factory. The fire hazard would be negligible because the debarking machine ran on electricity, and the sap stain treatment was a cold process. Stacked timber would be spread over a considerable area in easily-handled piles. Only an air-drying process was used and the waste material would be removed at regular intervals. The company would probably be applying for permission in the near future to erect further buildings on the same land. These additional buildings would be a sawmill with a second debarker, a boric treatment plant and diffusion shed, and a boiler for boric treatment heating and possible. kilns. The solicitors had been instructed to lodge an appeal to the Town and Country Planning Appeal Board, but wished the council to first consider the full circumstances, said the letter. The council decided to approve the application, subject to the company keeping the 10 acres clear of inflammable material at all times.