NEW ZEALAND AND PAPER MAKING

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 15 August 1925, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND AND PAPER MAKING

PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT.

(MOM ODR OWR CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, 19th June. Mr. D. S. .Wylip (Managing Director of Messrs. Smith, Wylie, and Co.), Mr. A. -M'Kenzie (a member of the same firm), .Mr- W. Fraser, (Dunedin), and Mr. R. B. Caws (Ihvercarjill) spent, about seven ÜBefiil weeks in Canada and the 'United States, making a speeinl itudy of afforestation, seeing the wood pulp and piper-njakitig mills, and ths operations of: some logging businesses in the interests of the New Zealand Perpetual 'Forests, Limited (of which Mr. Fraser is a director). They were in personal touch with the Afforestation authorities in both countries, including Mr. Findlayson (Chief of the Canadian Forestry Department at Ottawa), Mr. Dean Wmkeriw'erder., and r Professor; Goiibel (Washington University). They found that the greatest interest everywhere : was manifested in.,the Dominion, and the results of. the soft timber growing in. the Putaruru District of the North Island were a surprise to those authorities.

Beviewine their tour, now that, they are in London, the.New- Zealanders' are more conyinved.than ever.of the .tremendous possibilities which the district offers for the growing of woods to; yield soft timber—7s per cent, of the wood iii use is the soft variety, such as pirius. Tlie Canadian Forestry Department were astonished at' the rapidity of the growth in the' North Island as shown by the Dominion's official figures. They found, too, that the Dominion had done more for afforestation and is further ahead than the countries., visited.. ■In Alaska there aTe large tracts of timber, as well as in certain parts of British Columbia, but the geographical situation prevents their development as a, commercial proposition. ■■• ' .

Mr. Wylie is going to Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, and Italy to study afforestation and- the methods employed in pulping and paper-making,' and probably Mr. Fraser will* be accompanying him. ' ■ ■ ' ■ Since arriving in London, Mr. Wylj» has opened an office at Thanet 'House, Strand. About the end of September he will leave on a brief visit to New Zealand and Australia, and he expects to be in London again for Christmas. Three or four month* will then be spent in London before he finally goes back to the Dominion.

The issue of the Forestry Debenture Bonds which have been successful -in Australia and New Zealand will presently be available here, and a ready demand is anticipated. The scheme is-.recognised as being unique, and of a.' kind that should-- prove popular. Branches. of the business are to be opened at Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, and Leeds.