COMMERCIAL.
In consonance with the policy of never employing people within the colony if the services of outsiders, calling themselves experts, are- to bo secured (observes the ' New Zealand Times'), the Agricultural Department has decided to bring four gentlemen from Australia to take, charge of the poult reexport depots which are to be established at the. chief centres of fche colony. In many of the cities of New Zealand the bulk of the newspapers are printed on paper supplied by American firms. It appears, however, that important developments are about to take place in the paper trade in tho United States. A. new corporation, with a capital of £1,000,000, is about to commence the manufacture of paper from tho waste hulls of cotton seed, millions of tons of which are piled up all over the south of the States, constituting the refuse of hundreds of cotton-seed oil mills. The company control a new process for manufacturing from this material a new pulp, which will keep white, and not turn yellow, as wood pulp does, and costs only' £5 per ton, as against £ls per ton for wood I'nlp.
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Evening Star, Issue 11456, 25 January 1901, Page 4
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188COMMERCIAL. Evening Star, Issue 11456, 25 January 1901, Page 4
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