Timber Enterprise

Grows in Papua

Y the end of this year, with three large sawmills operating, Mr. Tom Flower becomes the gest private timber producer in Dua and New Guinea. He poses to float his business into )üblic company shortly; and, on business in sight, and on the n and his record, it should be ractive to Territory investors.

Ir. Flower always had faith in P-NG timber industry; but for ong time other people did not, i he had a hard battle in the rs immediately following the It was not made any easier high officialdom’s hostility to 3 form of private enterprise— re seemed to be a little group ong the bureaucrats who wanted keep all the forests and sawmills the Administration. [owever, Canberra somehow ,nged the quality of its thinking the last couple of years, and pate enterprise came into favour, 'om Flower already was doing y well with his mill at Seven e, outside Port Moresby, when finally secured the Brown River iber leases; and his horizon reupon widened considerably.