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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 30 November 1916, Page 5

There is a chance that Australia will be without paper next year, and country newspapers will cease to exist (says a Sydney paper). We are de pending- on Canada for supplies, but America has stepped in and bought all Canada’s output for the next few years. At present we are -depending on Scandinavia for supplies. The Sydney papers are seriously troubled where to buy supplies, and a bigshrinkage in the size of city papers can safely be forecasted. A city daily that used to get paper at £lO signed a contract the other day for \£42 per ton.