WOOD PULP AND PAPER

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 6 November 1933, Page 7

WOOD PULP AND PAPER

PROPOSED DOMINION MILLS. j PREPARATION OF PLANS. j (Bv Telsgrapn —Press Association.) j Auckland, Nov. 4. | An immediate start with the designing of the proposed woolpu'J'p anti paper mills to be erected m the Bay ot Plenty district by Timberlancls Y\ oodpulp Limited is to be made by Le Guere aud Worley Limited, consul ting engineers, of Auckland. For this pn'i-1 pose Mr L. A. De Guere, whose honie ( i.s in Wisconsin, United States, an iv-j ed by the Monterey yesterday. He last Visited New Zealand 18 months ago, when preliminary reports on the project were made. Mr De Guere, who lias had wide experience in the engineering design or woodpulp and paper mills in the United States and Canada, said it was intended to call tenders for tl*e Bay of Plenty mills as soon as t-lie plans were far enough advanced. in about 10 months’ time. He would himself be remaining in New Zealand for some j months. The mills would be able to produce the various articks cheaper than the cost of similar imported art-., iclcs plus duties. . | The plant would have a capacity tor, about 30.000 tons of paper and fibre board a year. All the commoner types of paper would be made, with the ex-1 coption of newsprint, although the latter 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, ltimu, tawa, and pinu.s msiguis would be used. About .300 hands 1 would be employed in the mills. Mr De Guere said the company owned an area of native forest land m the Raneitikei Valley. He displayed a number of paper samples made from New Zealand woods in the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, UnitedStates. The samples were produced in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin.