£500,000 Project for Papua
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New Paper Mill
THE establishment of a mill at Colling wood Bay in Papua for the manu facture of pulp and paper from grass in digenous to Papua and New Guinea, was outlined by Mr. P. R. Higgins, chairman of the British Australian Pulp and Paper Company, Ltd., at a luncheon on July 27, to Mr. Johnston Tait, paper mill engineer, on the eve of his departure for Edin burgh.
Mr. Higgins said that Mr. Tait had been engaged for some months, in co operation with Bertrams, Ltd., of Edin burgh, for the design of the company’s mill and plant for the manufacture of paper pulp at Collingwood Bay, Papua, and the company’s mill and plant for the manufacture of fine writing and printing paper, at Port Stephens, N.S.W.
“The first unit of plant, with an out put of 15,000 to 20,000 tons of bleached pulp each year, to be established at Col lingwood Bay,” Mr. Higgins said, “will alone represent a capital expenditure of approximately £500,000 in the territory.”