NEWSPRINT MADE FROM KAINGAROA FOREST TREES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 58, 19 June 1950, Page 5

NEWSPRINT MADE FROM KAINGAROA FOREST TREES

Newsprint from pinus radiata trees that formerly were growing in a Bay of Plenty forest at Kangaloa, and which were shipped to Lufkin, Texas, for pulping, has arrived in New Zealand. A sample of the paper was used by the Lufkin Daily News for its issue of January 26 last and proved successful.

Some New Zealand newspapers have agreed to make a trial, printing of the sample paper, which arrived in the ship Kelvinbank. The previous trial printing of paper of New Zealand origin was made on October 23, 1947, but the newsprint • hen used was made in Tasmania.

Although tests with New Zealand pulpwood have been made in both the United States and Australia in ihe past, the present one is of more than usual important because of its bearing on the proposal to establish an integrated sawmill and pulp and paper plant at Murupara. Kaingaroa State Forest is the largest man-made forest in the world, containing a net planted area of 259,791 acres. Planned daily output of the plant proposed to use the resources of this forest is 170 long tons of newsprint, 80 long tons of printing and fine writing paper, 85 long tons of cried bleached sulphate pulp, and 300,000 board feet of lumber. The manufacture of the trial consignment *Of newsprint was carried cut at Lufkin because the paper mill there is the only newsprint plant in the world that is successfully producing a high-quality sheet entirely from pine.