WAR AND PAPER.
and high prices— shortage oF*Taw material, shortage of labour, shortage of manufactured product; higher prices for [ everything we boy and fox everything -we sell'— that "in. sum was tii© answer of Mr. H. G. Spicer, of. the well-known firm of Spicer Brothers, when I asked him what difference the war had mode to the paper trade;" says Common 'Senee. "Mr. Spicer corrected a popular error. The man' in the street,' he said, 'supposes that the chief consumers of paper -are the daily newspaper publishers. That js quite a mistake. Their demands take up only a portion of the total output, and that of the poorest quality. By far the most important customer is the general trading community, which needs an immense amount of paper of various kinds in the transaction of its everyday business. Our manufactured product is part of tho raw material of every trade. If e-fory; newspaper in the country censed publication, the paper trade would still be one' of oar leading industries,' "
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 89, 14 April 1917, Page 14
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