WOODPULP AND PAPER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 12

WOODPULP AND PAPER

PROPOSED DOMINION MILLS PREPARATION OF THE PLANS An immediate start with the designing of the proposed woodpulp and paper mills to be erected in the Bay of Plenty district by Timberlands Woodpulp, Limited, is to be made by De Guere and Worlev, Limited, consulting engineers, of Auckland. For this purpose Mr. L. A. De Guere, whose home is in Wisconsin, United States, arrived by the Monterey yesterday. He last visited New Zealand IS months ago, when preliminary reports on the project were made.

Mr. He Guere, who has had experienco in the engineering design of woodpulp and paper mills in the United States and Canada, said it was intended to call tenders for the Bay ot Plenty mills as soon as tho plans wero far enough advanced, in about 10 months' time. He would himself be remaining in New Zealand for some months. The mills would be able to produco the various articles cheaper than the cost of similar imported articles plus duties. Tho plant would have a capacity for about 30,0 CX) tons of paper and fibre board a year. All the commoner types of paper would be made, with the exception 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. Rimu, tawa and pinus insignia would bo used. About 350 hands would be employed in tho mills. Mr. De Guere said the company owned an area of native forest land in the Rangitaiki Valley. He displayed a number of paper samples made from New Zealand woods in the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, United States. The samples were produced in conjunction with tho University of Wisconsin. '