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Story: Radiata pine

New Zealand-made newsprint

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New Zealand-made newsprint

This 1950 Evening Post newspaper was one of the first to be printed on paper made from New Zealand-grown radiata pine.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: 114/165/04

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Peter Berg, Radiata pine – Uses of pine timber, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16854/new-zealand-made-newsprint (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Peter Berg, published 1 March 2009.