Chips to be exported

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33093, 7 December 1972, Page 2

Chips to be exported

An agreement between the Lyttelton Harbour Board and Canterbury Forest Industries, Ltd, a company set up by the Canterbury Sawmillers’ Association, was signed yesterday for the export of wood chips to Japan, initially from mill wastes in the Canterbury area. The new export industry is estimated to be worth $520,000 a year. A central chip mill will be built in the Harewood area and the wood chips taken to a stockpile at Lyttelton for shipment twice or three times a year. The board is providing the stockpile area, reclaiming and receiving equipment, a conveying system and a ehiploader, tenders for which closed last week, and which will be available for handling other bulk cargo.

Chipping is expected to begin about next April so that there will be sufficient in th. stockpile for the first shipment in October or November of next year. The picture shows Mr J. Brand, the chairman of the board, signing the agreement. Next to him is Mr R. C. Halliday, the chairman of the company, with Mr R. J. Spence, the company’s vice-chairman, on the right. Standing behind are, from left, Mr J. A. McPhail, the general manager of the board, Mr R. J. Hawkins, a director of the company, and Mr N. S. Maney, the manager of the company.

Livestock aid.—The first consignment of New Zealand breeding cattle, comprising 40 Hereford yearling heifers and five Hereford bulls, has arrived in Tonga aboard the Union Steam Ship Company, Ltd, vessel Waikare. The shipment is part of a live-stock-aid programme by the New Zealand Government. The cost of the programme is $750,000.—<PA.)