PAPER MILLS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 11, 15 May 1939, Page 5

PAPER MILLS

BUSINESSMEN IMPRESSED

PRAISE FOR UNDERTAKING

High praise for the efficiency of the Whakatane Paper Mill LUl ? s undertaking and satisfaction at the good effect the works will have oil the industrial life of Whakatane and New Zealand as a whole, was express ed by Ml- A. G. Limn, ex-Picsulent of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand, who paid a visit to the mills yesterday in the course of a business trip to Whakatane. "T was very anxious to see the mills now that the wheels nro turning" said Mr Lunn. "One has to see the mills working to realise what an important industry it will be for the whole country, especially when one considers the number of hands continuously employed in working the machines through the whole 2-1 hours quite apart from the fact, that the, underta.king is of great vahio to afforestation by using up the thinnings of the pine forests and thus gives a return which was, in some cases, not anticipated. "The mill is producing a very excellent chip board suitable for many purposes and, in short, it is an industry which is a great credit to the enterprise which has raised the large sums necessary, and instituted an undertaking which should be a very important and growing branch of the economic life of New Zealand."