PAPER PULP.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 158, 28 March 1908, Page 5

PAPER PULP.

NOT NEW. COLD WATER FROM VARIOUS sources. . y ..,L,,; BY TELEGRAPH—MESS ASSOCIATION- —COPYRIGHT. . (Rcc. March 27, >9.43 p.m,) i Brisbane, March, 27. .'ln 'roference. to 'the ''cables regarding the manufacture 'of paper pulp, Mr. Maxwell, director of the/Sugar Bureau,' says there is nothing now in the statement that- megass is r usable/for paper-making.: 'sit' was tried iii Louisiana years ago, and, it 'is believed, proved too expensive.:,He ridiculed tho idest that' sugar cario boulil be. profitably cultivated for megass alone. ■ : TRIED AT RIVERHEAD. ; i - (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.iI' Auckland, March 27. / With, retoronoo to a cablo published t-o-day to : the effect that tlie. proprietor of' a sugar estate in Trinidad had succeeded in converting 8f per cent./of the. mcgass, or waste cane, into paper 'pulp, inquiries made in Auckland have elicited the'fact that the discovery, was made some years ago hero that sugar cano, could ,be converted . into paper pulp, and an experiment was roado at tho paper . "mills. at: Riverhead. It was found; however, that tho paper. was of very poor quality,- and' would /not pay. for. tlio* freight charges for bringing thomegass from Fiji; , The megass, however, has,been found to bo p{.great : use,in Sydney.; as, a basis for, fibrous plaster', for. walls and ceilings, etc.,. serving better in - this connection, /than any / othor •basis discovered -.'so,", far. j .'lt. is,; ' of. couree, probable that tho Trinidad.' paper-making method may bo by some hitherto unthouglitof process.' k'i' /;■ i:/;^-//.' : ;.y-''/■'