WOOD PULP & PAPER

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 36, 6 November 1933, Page 10

WOOD PULP & PAPER

Proposed Dominion Mills PREPARATION OF PLANS Dominion Special Service. Auckland, November 4. An immediate start with the designing of the proposed woodpulp and paper mills to be erected in the Bay of Plenty district by Timberlands Woodpulp Limited is to be made by De Guere aud Worley Limited, consulting engineers, of Auckland. For this purpose Mr. L. A. De Guere, whose home is in Wisconsin, United States, arrived by the Monterey yesterday. He last visited New Zealand 18 months ago, when preliminary reports on the project were made. Mr. De Guere, who has had wide experience iu the engineering design of woodpulp and paper mills in the United States and Canada, said it was intended to call tenders for the Bay of Plenty mills as soon as the plans were far enough advanced, in about 10 months’ time. He would himself be remaining in New Zealand for some months. The mills would be able to produce the various articles cheaper than the cost of similar imported articles plus duties.' The plant would have a capacity for about 30,000 tons of paper and fibre board a year. All the commoner types of paper would be made, with the exception of newsprint, although the ter would be made in the course of time. The paper would embrace a wide variety of the coarse grades and also bleached products for the higher grades. Rimu, tawa, and p|nus inslgnis would be used. About 350 hands would be employed in the mills. Mr. De Guere said the company owned an area of native forest land in the Rangitaiki Valley. He displayed a number of paper samples made from New. Zealand woods in the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, United State* The samples were produced in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin.