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    By: UHCL Admin20th Mar 2019 12:59PMAdditional mation from Don McLeod, Recollect volunteer:
    There is some confusion over the company name; Wilkinson Sword had acquired Bryant and May, match manufacturers, and the Upper Hutt plant made matches; around 600 000 boxes (30 million matches) a day in 1975. It had started in Upper Hutt around 1971 as Bryant & May (N Z) Limited, using Canadian wood for match splints. New Zealand splints were being tested in Australia in 1975 ('Leader', May 28). The October 10, 1978 'Leader' announced that a new 12 000-square-fot splint complex was about to open, and after five years, supplies of sheets of New Zealand wood had been arranged. The plant would open at Bryant & May (N.Z.) Limited in January 1979.

    Might the demand decline mentioned in 1988 be blamed on throw-away butane lighters?
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    Maidstone Park conservatory opening; fountain in memory of Brian Nelson.

    Maidstone Park conservatory opening; fountain in memory of Brian Nelson.
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