THE PAPER TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 12, 14 July 1923, Page 8

THE PAPER TRADE

DEVELOPMENT ON IMPERIAL

fJBOa ODR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

q- r. j -, L0NI)0N, Ist June. Sir Frederick Becker, chairman of Messrs. Becker and Co., the great paper firm, advocated at the annual meting of the company a policy of developing the trade on Imperial lines. As he pointed out, every newspap*r, nearly every magazine and publication,, rested upon the fundamental basis of the ! output of mechanical wood pulp. By embarking on great enterprises in Canada, the company is endeavouring, in face of keen rivalry from tie United States and elsewhere, to advance the pulp interests of" the Dominion and at j the same time to enable paper to be purchased in this. country • at an eco- | nomic price. . | "We have always as a company taken ' a rather quixotic view of our duties," he said, "and have tried to be 'a guide, philosopher, and friend' to the 1 great publishing houses and the great newspaper proprietors and paper nulls of this j country. I think we can safely claim

that if it had not been for the policy adopted by our house the development of the Canadian trade would not have gone forward, and the whole position would have been a more. precarious one than it is. It is precarious enough if people really realise how things are at the moment. I think that we should try to continue not only to make money for ourselves, but to bring about the development of the Empire—to bring about the manufacture of the article in which we deal under the Union Jack, carried on English bottoms, converted into paper in English paper mills, and read by English readers."