TIMBER A 8 A CROP. Although timber might be considered a most unusual crop, it is certainly profitable, because of the very wide range of products which are manufactured from it. In America it provides the raw material for approximately one-third of the industries, yet supplies in that country are rapidly diminishing. Science has produced from softwood an almost inconceivable range of commodities, including newsprint, all kinds of paper, artificial silk, celluloid, photographic films and explosives, as well as many others too numerous to mention. As the result of N.Z. Perpetual Forests Ltd.’s operations, the pulping and alMed industries will be established in New Zealand in the near future.—
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 256, 12 October 1932, Page 8
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