PAPER PRICES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 570, 28 September 1920, Page 2

PAPER PRICES.

I POSITI3N IN ENGLAND. ' MO IMMEDIATE REDUCTION. .1 "News on reels, 8d pet- lb. f.o.r." — J iIT-1 per ton thi s is .the advertisej men! which most worries the newsI paper proprietors of Great Britain I (writes the London correspondent of the Sydney Sun, under date of AugI u.st - r >). He goes on to say that in I the last tw<> ye.-irs 4So publications i have .loii't)led 'and trebled their prices. i and ve-tl- increased their advertising j nites. They nre still .strenuously ,-'t i\\ ;i.■_• in obtain more revenue by J i-harginy more Cor I heir papers, and I hv p;is>iuv ..mie of the extra cost of i prndiirlion mi to the advertisers, but I r.-v.- of I hem can show jiny profit. the, cost of raw material newsI pri?i! has risen liejond all anticipa- | iipiv-. and the other charges governii v the r-?.pente of newspaper production have soared in unison. The Turns lias just issued a fortnightly illustrated paper, and 'he price is Is Uil -jiiol three I ones what it would i have hern before the war. A few "J the b'e papars drawing large .sums from eutci prisinu business .'inns pre ma-aging to keep ahead of th" constant rise in costs. ; The Daily Mail, with an actual circu- | lation of over ■> million a day, has a I contract for advertisement with Harrods, Ltd., for tIOO.OOO for the ! next twelve month.-. Other papers ; without the-same pull, however, have i to work under most distracting con--1 ditions to make ends meet. No pulp oi paper manufacturing mills "disclose any desire to reduce their quotations. England is trying to become partially independent of Scandinavia., her main source of pulp supplies in recent years, by acquiring forest collections and interests in pulp mil 11 in Canada. Some slight achievement has to be recoiled, in this direction. EnclSfe&is hoping that pncesN^ill stantiaUdrop in ciuotatioTSS*