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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 593, 17 December 1920, Page 2

The shortage of newsprint paper hi!,-; resulted in two companies )>ein;; crjjanised in Florida to manufacture pulp from the native saw crass. There are millions of acres of this grass in Florida, which were regarded as useless for agricultural purposes. The grass, it is stated, grows as rapidly as seaweed, and cutting only seems to stimulate its progress. Some of the first pulp made from this materia! has been forwarded from Florida to a large paper manufacturing company at Hoosac Falls. If an ; nnual crop of grass capable of being converted into paper has been discovered then the question of future supplies will be definitely settled.