Pulp Industry
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Preparing for Papua’s Paper Pulp Industry
From Our Own Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, Aug. 25.
T'HAT the preparations for the con struction of the British and Aus tralian Pulp and Paper Co.’s mill and plant at Collingwood Bay, Papua, are well under way is causing much satis faction in the Territory.
Plans for a tramway and a wharf are almost completed, and serve to show that there will be permanent employment shortly for not only a large number of labourers, but also many European ar tisans, engineers and overseers.
The establishment of the paper pulp mills in Collingwood will mean much for the development of the country. It is said that the first unit of plant with an output of 20,000 tons of bleached pulp per annum will alone represent a capital expenditure of £500,000. It is anticipated that 650 natives will be employed on this project, both for cultivating and harvest ing the Kuru-Kuru grass.