PAPER MANUFACTURE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18538, 8 April 1930, Page 3

PAPER MANUFACTURE

That New Zealand could undertake i the manufacture of paper with every i 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. Mr Richer, who has spent some time investigating the pulp and paper-making I possibilities of the Dominion, said he ’ was satisned, after a searching examr ination, that New Zealand had the 3 j necessary wood supply, especially from , ! the point of view of the suitability of r j the wood for paper-production. , The Dominion possesed plenty of r 1 power and had a market at her doors, , i said Mr Richer. He was convinced that ; 1 the production costs of the product i manufactured from the available i i woods would be in keeping with the . 1 plants of other countries engaged in , the manufacture of similar grades of T i 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 flnd- | ings reached earlier as the result of • 1 investigations into the possibilities of paper-making in New Zealand. He did [ not think it would be necessary to es- . j tablish the industry on the basis of a ' l large initial production