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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 669, 22 May 1929, Page 9

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N.Z. PRODUCE IN UNITED STATES MERCHANT’S TOUR ABROAD “If we wish to dispose of our goods on the American market we must send qualified men over there to self them.” rpHIS is the advice of Mr. S T. Paviour-Smith, the well-known merchant, who returned by the Port Auckland today from a trip to England and the United States. He said that he found quite a demand for New Zealand butter in the States, and that it was appreciated by the consumers. New Zealand produce, however, was not advertised. Mr. Paviour-Smith is of the opinion that if experts were sent to the United States it would be quite possible to sell our meat, butter, wool and cheese there, despite the tariffs. American methods of mechanical production intrigued Mr. PaviourSmith. In the States he found everyone very busy and apparently prosperous* Conditions in England showed aji improvement, and the people were expecting a good summer after the intense cold of the •winter. “What impressed me particularly m America was the number of inland towns with populations of from 10,0f»o to 15,000, in which all seemed to b*' prosperous, and yet one wondered what the people did for a living. Mr. Paviour-Smith visited th» mills where a new variety of building board, made from the waste of pitch piue, is manufactured. The waste is broken into chips and then forced through a gun. It comes out rather like wool. While it is still hot the article is pressed between hot plates which, under different pressures, produces different thicknesses of board. The process was dicovered by a man named Mason about two yearsago, and so great is the demand today that the factory works 24 hours a day for six days of the week—the workmen taking shifts. Shifts of 10 men also work continuously in a laboratory. Mr. Paviour-Smith also visited Bogalusa, the second largest sawmill in the world, where 1,000,000 feet of timber is cut every day. The methods of dealing with the timber greatly ; impressed the New Zealander. “The logs lie in a pool until they are w r anted,** he said. “A workman feeds them from there into a belt, and until the sawn timber is stacked in the yards the logs are never once touched by a man. Everything is done mechanically, and the nost ingenious methods are used.”