In 1800 wo made about 10,000 tons of paper, and now in a year we make 800,000 tons, and import over 200,000 tons more. Moreover, the average price at the beginning, of last century was Is. 6u. a pound; to-day you may buy paper for -ijd. per pound.— " Westminster Gazette."
That the presont system of apnointing commercial attaches and commercial agents is unsatisfactory has been widely felt. We are living in an ago of specialisation, and we can only look for success from any system of commercial attacheships when the man who starts on a tour of investigation has something more than a superficial knowledge —at present we have no guarantee that even this minimum is possessed—of the subject upon which he is to report.—" Engineer."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 42, 13 November 1907, Page 5
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