The Fletcher Group Annual Report

Thirty eighth Annual Report of Fletcher Holdings Limited for the year ended 31 March 1978.

Photographs by Brian Brake are:

· Front cover:Roofing subcontractors fixing roof cladding on the Marsden 'B' power project;

· Page 1: J C Fletcher, Chairman and Managing Director;

· Page 10: Members of the Fletcher Holdings Limited's board of management;

· Page 12: A high percentage of staff in the Group's West Coast wood processing industries are women imported logs for decorative plywood veneers are piled high behind the yard foreman at Gladstone plywood mill. Page;

· Page13: Fletcher Timber became the first NZ company to produce machine stress graded timber for the domestic market on this computerised equipment at it Kopu sawmill;

· Page 14: His Excellency, the Hon. Y Shirawi, Minister of Development for Bahrain inspects a Corrugated Steel Products culvert during his tour;

·Page15: A corrugated steel culvert section emerges glistening from the galvanising tank at the Penrose plant of Fletcher Galvanising, a division of Fletcher Industries;

· Page16: Fletcher Development Construction offers clients the advantages of speed and economy in its complete design and build service which may start in the drawing office;

· Page17: Boiler erection by FDW proceeds on the 250 MW Marsden "b" power station near Whangarei;

· Page 18: Auckland city's Downtown shopping and office complex, one of 18 managed by Fletcher Trust throughout NZ;

· Page19: Telephone orders at Hire Pool's many NZ branches are a major part of its business;

· Page 21: Fine adjustments are required to keep Tasman's paper machines running at maximum speed while producing a top quality product;

· Pg. 22: The assembly line at Beazley's relocatable unit factory at Mount Maunganui swings into action to fill an export order bound for the Middle East;

· Page 36: The Manager of Fletcher Forests' nursery shows root formation of radiata pine seedlings grown at the Company's Pakipaki nursery. The Fletcher Group's safety programme includes industrial health staff such as this registered nurse at Fletcher Timber's Ruatapu complex, near Hokitika. Fletcher Data Centre in Auckland city is an efficient data processing and computer service which is used by Fletcher companies as well as outside clients. More than 1,000 runners set off on their 26 mile run around Lake Rotorua in the 14th Annual Fletcher Marathon, reputed to be the biggest marathon in the southern hemisphere and perhaps the most scenic in the world.