PAPER MANUFACTURE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1902, 12 November 1918, Page 4

PAPER MANUFACTURE.

According to Mr L. Rodwau honorary botanist to the Tasmanian Government, a number of limbers of the island State are eminently -likable for the production of paper pulp making, lie slates there is no longer any necessity to Avasle money on further experiments, as the paper industry is now narrowed down to the que-tun of the cost of production. Recently an American expert made pulp from biuegtrm, stringy bark, swamp gum, and beech. Mr Rodway states that' when (he second growth of timber from a cleared area is available, it would lend it-elf much belter to treatment for (taper pulp. For example, young growth of stringy bark, six or seven years of age, covering fore-t areas cleared of bigger limber, can be taken o(C at once, and the whole pul through the mills without any picking over, because it is of a very soft elm racier, and would md require much chipping or pulping: also, there will be a constant growth from the old slumps harveslahle after every seven years. But. even economical as this Avould he, it probably would not pay to work up pulp from eucalyptus. The better proposition would be to plant areas will) spruce or (Tee mallow, specially for conversion into pulp.