NEWSPRINT SHORTAGE.
BAMBOOS PULP ADVOCATED,
AMPLE SUPPLY IN INDIA.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, May 4. Mr. Raitt, the Indian Government cellulose expert, addressing the Society of Arts and referring to the dearness of newsprint owing to the reduced supply of -wood, estimated the world’s consumption of paper at 12,000,000 tons annually. He said investigations by the Indian Forest Research Institute showed that only two vegetable substances were economically valuable for paper making, namely, bamboo and savannah grass. Mr. Raitt expressed the opinion that Burma, Bengal and South-West India could produce 10 million tons of bamboo pulp annually, and Assam three million tons of savannah grass. Therefore India could produce pulp for the whole world. There were prospects that bamboo unbleached pulp would be deliverable in the United Kingdom at a cost of £l6 to £lB per ton.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1921, Page 8
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137NEWSPRINT SHORTAGE. Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1921, Page 8
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