MANUFACTURE OF PAPER

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 232, 20 December 1927, Page 20

MANUFACTURE OF PAPER

POSSIBLE IN NEW ZEALAND EXPERT OPINION “It may be possible in the nenr future to begin the manufacture of paper In New Zealand. “There are plenty of trees, and if the paper can bp made on a commercial basis it will use up the wood which will be thinned out from the plantations.” THE wood of the pinus inslgnus makes splendid paper, said Professor H. H. Corbin, professor of forestry at the Auckland University, who made the above remarks this morning. For the last five weeks he has been travelling at the rate of 1,000 miles a week in Australia, where he has been on a tour of investigation of forests and their condition. “The Dominion has made more progress than Australia with regard forestry,” he said. “We have better conditions, speaking generally, over a much wider area. I think New Zealand is producing more satisfac c*rv results.” Professor Corbin said that he saw some of the experimental work which is being done in Australia, and he drew conclusions w&ich may be of material advantage to New Zealand, particularly regarding the growth of trees for commercial purposes. Several companies in Australia, he said, are experimenting in the manufacture of paper from the wood of the pinus insignus, and one of them has reached a semi-commercial stage. People outside New Zealand have a very high regard for what she has done for forestry, and they admire the way the Dominion has faced the problem of afforestation, said Professor Corbin.