EXHIBITION OF WALLBOARD

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30739, 1 May 1965, Page 21

EXHIBITION OF WALLBOARD

Display House In Art Gallery A complete home fitted with wallboards of every colour is on view at N.Z. Forest Products wallboard exhibition. The home is fitted under the roof of the Old Art Gallery, in Durham street. More than 250 persons walked through it in half an hour at the opening. Many varied types of wallboard panels, tiles, mouldings, as well as such refinements as leatherboard, are packed into the one house.

In reality, said a company demonstrator, so many different kinds of material were rarely incorporated in any one house.

The object of the demonstration house was to give ideas to the housewife, builders, architects, and to show the versatility of wallboard. The Mayor (Mr G. Manning). in opening the show, said the economy of New Zealand would be challenged by the changes taking place in traditional export markets and the need for additional markets in other countries.

This particular industry, he said, showed how the byproducts from trees might be utilised for the production of other commodities, as well as timber.

The director of marketing for N.Z. Forest Products (Mr D. O. Walker) said the company was selling wallboards in Great Britain, the United States. Canada. Australia, and through the Pacific. The wallboards, he said, represented something like one-third of the wall-lining market in New Zealand today.

The exhibition will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., till May 8.