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(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The first newsprint to be produced from New Zealand timber will be made in Tasmania this month, when ( a sample shipment of pinus insignus will be treated. The experiment is being sponsored by the New Zealand Government. • Announcing this last night, the Commissioner of State Forests, Mr Skinner, said that timber had already been converted into pulp at the paper mills in Victoria and the pulp would be taken to Tasmania to be converted into paper. Mr Skinner said it was the policy of the Government that sufficient- paper and pulp mills to meet the needs of New Zealand should be established in this country.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 May 1947, Page 2
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