PAPER SHORTAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1920, Page 1

PAPER SHORTAGE

That there is not more than 35 days’ supply of printing paper in the whole of North America at the present moment, is the statement by Mr D. H. Rossh, Canadian Trade Commissioner who has returned to Melbourne after an absence of eight months. Mr Ross states that the majority of the daily papers published in Vancouver, only 80 miles from the mills supplying the bulk of tho paper used in Australia, are sold at 5 cents. (21 d) a copy. If there were anv trouble with tho lumbermen or others engaged in the production of raw material the great majority of newspapers in the United States would have to cease publication within six weeks “The question became so acute just as I left Canada,” continued Mr Ross “it was reported from New York that the United States Government was sIT of'" papers, 6 partiSarly ’ "the cnor■'M^s^Sd^thege^ CoiS'were lundoubtedly 1 undoubtedly'"favourable Columbia «« Australian martowards supplying tnc au ers i i large Government steam U ’ll lil ortlv he loading with eonsiderwou'd shoi Commonable cargoes ot papei wealth.