PAPER MANUFACTURE
That New Zealand could undertake the manufacture of paper with every expectation of success, is the opinion of Mr A. F. Richer, head of a number of large paper-making companies in Canada and the United States. Mi* Richer, who has spent some time investigating the pulp and paper-making possibilities of the Dominion, said he was satisned, after a searching examination, that New Zealand had the necessary wood supply, especially from the point of view of the suitability of the wood for paper-production.
The Dominion possesed plenty of power and had a market at her doors, said Mr Richer. He was convinced that the production costs of the product manufactured from the available woods would be in keeping with the plants of other countries engaged in the manufacture of similar grades of paper. The West Coast, he considered, was ideally situated m relation to its resources. “I am certain,” he said,
“that capital may be easily enlisted for the establishment of paper-making here.” He fully concurred in the findings reached earlier as the result of investigations into the possibilities of paper-making in New Zealand. He did not think it would be necessary to establish the industry on the basis of r large initial production
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18536, 5 April 1930, Page 7
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