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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18540, 10 April 1930, Page 7

REAFFORESTATION WORK Mr A. F. Richter, head of a number of large paper-making companies in Canada, stated recently that he considered that New Zealand could undertake the manufacture of paper with every expectation of success. “My investigations establish the fact that a pulp and paper industry need not be protected by an import tariff but could compete in the open market with the mills of other countries,” said Mr Richter. Mr Richter considered that wood could be used that hitherto had had no appreciable value, and that had, in fact, been ruthlessly destroyed. He expressed warm admiration for the policy and achievements of the New Zealand Forestry Department. “I enjoyed that privilege of being shown through the Forestry Department’s nursery at Rimu” he said, “and learned that extensive areas have been planted during the past few years.” “I cannot pay an adequate tribute to the sound judgment and the splendid practical policy shown in the work of reafforestating the timber areas. Valuable work is being done in selecting species of trees of rapid growth, well suited to the climate and to the growing conditions whic|h obtain in New Zealand.” ....