WOOD-PULP EXPERIMENTS
WORK IN TASMANIA SOUTH ISLAND SYNDICATE With a plant purchased from the Wembley Exhibition, a company has been experimenting with the manufacture of newsprint in Tasmania. Mr. R. H. Barton, who arrived from Sydney by the Maramar, said that the paper is being manufactured from Tasmanian hardwoods and good paper was being turned out. There was no indication of the cost, but he considered that if the company could manufacture the paper at a reasonable rate it would develop into a profitable industrj*. A South Island syndicate proposes to manufacture wood-pulp and pjiper. Mr. A. F. Richter, a chemical engineer and president of the Canadian Stetbins Engineering and Manufacturing Company, arrived by the Niag.-yra. under engagement to the Westland Wood-Pulp and Paper Syndicate. He will go into the question of manufacturing newsprint for the company.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 434, 16 August 1928, Page 11
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