THE PULP INDUSTRY
AUSTRALIAN ENTERPRISE. PIN US INSIGNIS USEFUL. SYDNEY, July 21. The Institute of Science and Industry reports that its investigations regarding the production of paper pulp "ere highly successful. They showed that the use of certain varieties of Australian timbers for the commercial production of paper would probably he a success. The work of the institute had aimed mainly at the production of soda pulp for high-grade papers. Alore recently the sulphite method for newsprint had been investigated, and lmd given such promising results that the production of newsprint was being undertaken in Tasmania on a plant capable of producing one toil a day. It the results continued to bo satisfactory the establishment of the industry on a basis of an expenditure of £.5.000,(X!0 to £6.000,000 in the course of the next five or six years was assured. Very promising results had been obtained from pinus insignis pulp, which was found to he eminently suitable for the manufacture of strong brown paper. Large ipiautities of this timber were available, and the institute tv.ls arranging for further tests, which it i.s beieved will lend to its commercial exploitation on a large scale.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1927, Page 4
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193THE PULP INDUSTRY Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1927, Page 4
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