NEW USE FOE WOOD
Science has found a new use for wood. It is the making of ]>ie plates from a combination of woodpulp and water glass, in which the pies are baked and then sold. The plate is inexpensive, and has the colour of white china. Since millions of pies are made and sold daily in the United States, over 100,000 tons of wood pulp are already being used for these plates per annum. As this new use for wood is only oue of over 4500 for which wood and its products aro utilised, some conception of the potential value of the 132,000 acres of forests already established by New Zealand Perpetual Forests Ltd. is obvious to itnv shrewd observer,-Advl.
In America there arc 100 telephones for evn'V 1000 persons, in Canada 144, New Zealand 108. Denmark 94, Sweden 83, Australia 82, Norway 00, Switzerland 0,), Germany 00, and in Great Britain 42.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21736, 30 August 1932, Page 10
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