CANTERBURY SITE SUGGESTED FOR NEWSPRINT MILL
Usually, when there is talk of the wood pulp industry and paper-mak-ing possibilities in New Zealand, the reference is to the Bay of Plenty or the Rotorua district, but an expert with 45 years of experience in the printing and paper trades has spoken in favour of a site within a few miles of Christchurch.
The expert is Mr E. E. C. Hyde, whose opinion it is that a site at Chaney’s, six miles from the city, offers possibilities for the establishment of’a wood pulp factory which would provide the Dominion’s whole paper requirements without going more than 25 miles away in any direction for timber.
Apart from offering outstanding facilities for obtaining timber, the locality had an unfailing pure water supply, a railhead cheap building land, cheap building material, lime deposits on the same railway line and a reserve for the disposal of effluents, said Mr Hyde. Four hundred acres of 14-year-old pinus timber was all that was necessary to provide 25,000 tons of paper, New Zealand’s annual requirement for newsprint.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 October 1948, Page 6
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