NEWSPRINT PAPER

Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1920, Page 3

NEWSPRINT PAPER

WORLD SHORTAGE OF PULI’

]Mr Herbert C. Didout, London editor of “Editor and .Publisher” (New York), writing in March last, stated : “According to the Newspaper Society the paper position during this year will be a serious one, for it lias underlined a message for its members advising them '(o' go carefully iptp the question and try to save paper by eliminating all wastage and reducing sizes where practicable.' The situation later in the year will be very serious, possibly worse than at any period of the war. •‘ln addition to this, the Newspaper Conference and the Paper-makers’ Association, meeting to discuss the pnpei position, arrived at certain disquieting facts that confirm the Newspaper Society’s view of a “hard’’ year. “The paper-makers stated that there is a world shortage of pulp and that prices are steadily rising, They said that in their opinion the price of newsprint made by EinglLsh mills would probably reach 5Jd in June next. They further'stated that the 'English mills are overwhelmed with orders, both home and foreign, winch (hey are unable to supply “They said that they were unable to offer any definite opinion as to the prob- ! able price of newsprint after June, but ' thought that further increases might ho anticipated in view of world conditions.”

Mr Jason Rogers (New York “Globe”) an acknowledged nutho’ Ry ■ on newspaper statistics, fofipicasts that the price of paper will reach 30 cents (10d per lb. in the United States this year. This would equal £93 8s B<l per ton in Am.er.ic,