LIFTING THE ROOF

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 93, 19 August 1942, Page 5

LIFTING THE ROOF

VAGU ARIES OF PAPER BEACON < )I!^ICM QUANDARY Innocent tiers' of newsprint in the Beacon printing were the cause of considerable upheaval 1 yesterday when the united ef- ' forts of three men,, much pack- '• ing and a man-size timber jack were required to raise the roof < in order to release the paper for ' use. 1 ( The story ranks with one of Rip- j ley's 'Believe it or Not' series, and , concerns the expanding habits of ( paper ones it is released from the , bales and stacked. Two years ago ] when the Avar was a pup, and lacked ( the torrid reality it has to-day a ( shipment of Canadian newsprint was , landed at Whakatane and duly un- j baled. The paper was stacked in j tiers some (50 reams high, leaving a ( bare six or seven inches clearance. Now you have it, the slow pro- j cess of expansion after so many . months of tight baling, assisted by the varied nature of the weather over two years, bi ought about the unbelievable. . When the paper was approached by a business-like compositor, it was immovable and had the rigidity of Avail of concrete. The roof was the only thing that prevented it flowering out into the sunlight. So ( solid had the pressure become that j the pile Avas converted into the ( semblance, of a column of concrete ami defied all efforts to dislodge it. As Ave stated it required the j largest bottle-j"ack in toAA 7 n and three men to formally lift the roof and release the paper upon AA'hicll you are iioav reading this story.