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PROSPECTS IN AUSTRALIA. SCIENCE INSTITUTE’S REPORT. BY CABLE—PBJSSS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 12.35 p.m. to-day. SYDNEY, July 21. The Institute of Science and Industry reports that its investigations regarding the production of paper pulp were highly successful. They showed that the use of certain varieties of Australian timbers for commercial production of paper was a promising proposition. The work of the Institute had aimed mainly at the production of soda pulp for high grade papers. More recently the sulphite method for newsprint had been investigated and had given such promising results that the production of newsprint -was being undertaken in Tasmania on a one ton per day plant, and if results continued satisfactory the establishment of the industry on a basis of an expenditure of five to six million sterling in tlic course of the next five or six years was assured.
Very promising results had been obtained" from pinus insignis pulp, which was found eminently suitable for the manufacture of strong brown paper. Large quantities of this timber are available, and the council is arranging for further tests, which, it is believed, will lead to commercial exploitation on a large scale.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 21 July 1927, Page 7
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194WOOD PULP Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 21 July 1927, Page 7
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