Kurukuru
p. 17 · Read in the full issue
Paper Company Seeks 200 Sq.
Miles in Papua
THE exclusive right, for 12 months, to apply for a license to cut kurukuru grass in an area of 200 square miles, in the vicinity of the Emboga River, in North-east Papua, was granted by Gazette proclamation, on July 2, to Sir Gerald Mussen.
Sir Gerald Mussen is chairman of the British Australian Paper and Pulp Com pany; and the 200-square miles are right alongside that company’s Sangara leases.
Which suggests that, at long last, the Papuan grass called kurukuru (kunai, to you of New Guinea) may be coming into its own as the main material for high class paper. Experts have compared it favourably with the famous esparto.