THE PAPER SHORTAGE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3456, 9 April 1920, Page 5

THE PAPER SHORTAGE.

PROBABLE BAG FAMINE. OVERSEA.S ORDERS CANCELLED. ' CHRISTCHURCH“, Apl‘il 8. “There is going to be such an acute famine in piper’ bags that .11 great deal of flue shopping in the near futur-e will have to be done with buskets and other receptables.” This prmliction was made ‘ro-day by a mercllan.t. who was pointing out that. in the near future a famine in many kinds of paper was a certainty. While the main trouble is concerning‘ supplies of newsprint. paper. suppliers are also closing down on orders for paper bags and other kinds of paper. The merchant showed as evidence of t.l'l'ls, :1 number of cancellations and withdrawals of 'quotations from C.'nn-ma and England. In Engl:m(l_. it was stated, it was impossible to supply the trade there, let alone export.

At one "time mills in New Zealand prmitxced almost all the pfiper bags, o’rc., that were required. ’I;l1ey are nowvlm-.1l)le to secure Sufficient Sulphate pulp for the purpose, and an en<lvnvmn- being marle-—-but more or less unsuccessfully-~-to~ get these classes of paper from Canada aml other countries. The trouble is thaf New Zezllaml mills have no machinery for pulping timber. In Canada the Wood is grpluld and clwmically treated into :1 .~‘.ulphato pulp. Tlle New Zealand m:mufactln'ers import this sulphate pulp, and mix with it old paper, tus-soclc.:l-gggs, om.‘ From this "they manu-fnrEl-1m- paper for fheir special requirements. V