WOOD PULP AND PAPER.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13731, 20 March 1915, Page 3

WOOD PULP AND PAPER.

[Untied Pbess Abbooiatiok ]

Hokltlka, March 19. The Westland Land Board to-day granted an application for a lease of 30,000 acres at Otira as a wood pulp reservation, also an application for an area for a special site for a powerhouse, paper mill buildings, etc. The applications for the necessary water rights for power purposes have been recommended by the Warden for the consent of the Minister of "Mines. Exhaustive experiments have been made, and expert reports show the suitability of the timbers for the manufacture of liood pulp and papers, and a company is now being formed to establish the industry on th.c West Coast..