PAPER SUPPLY.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 June 1920, Page 5

PAPER SUPPLY.

A NEW DANGER,

ITS AFFECT ON NEWSPAPERS.

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copjrt!£ht.

Eeeoivcd June 29,11.35 p..n,

Vancouver, June 28,

The newspaper Daily Province says that the oil famine threatens to cause the suspension of production of paper in the British Columbia mills two months hence, cutting out supplies for newspapers on the Pacific Coast. Sydney and Melbourne will also be .affected.

The mills have been notified to expect only one more oil tanker each. It will take many months to convert the paper making plants to burn coal.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

[The principal mills in British Columbia are Ocean Falls and Powell River, which supply practically the whole of the news print used in New Zealand and Australia. The supply from these sources was curtailed during the first four months of this year owing to the Canadian Government's action in diverting s'upplies to the Canadian papers, which had been left short owing to the big purchases by American papers. This account? for the present shortage of paper in New Zealand and Australia. Many of the papers, especially the bigger ones, have now their backs to the wall, fighting hard to keep alive. If the mills named close up only for a week or two it will mean the suspension of many papers in New Zealand. Thfe effect in Australia will he even worse, as supplios there aro ranch smaller relatively than in New Zealand. For 1921, for instance, the visible supplies aro only 20,000 tons, and the ordinary consumption is 03,000 tons. If Powell River and Ocean Falls close down temporarily it means that disaster will overtake tire Australasian Press.]