NEWSPRINT SHORTAGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1716, 6 January 1920, Page 5

NEWSPRINT SHORTAGE.

PRICES STILL RISING.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Lai I, v—«-iation. Received January 6, 8.45 a m OTTAWA, Jan. 3. An official denial is given to the report that the Government contemplated entirely prohibiting the export of newsprint, Canadian newspapers use 20 per cent of the output, and the remaining 30 per cent must be exported or the industry will close down. The Government’s only object in interfering is to see that the Canadian papers get fair supplies. As the'first call will not interfere with the balance, there is reason to believe that the Pacific coast mills will continue supplying Australasia this year, substantially on the same basis as last year, but publishers everywhere realise that prices are rising. With the acute scarcity and all stocks wiped out, even the richest newspapers are, having to be content with hand to mouth supplies. Certainly there is no hope of Australasia getting more paper than she has b ■ i iv ceiving from Canada, .t

CANADA FIRST.

PAPER SHIPMENTS SEIZED,

LOCAL NEEDS MUST BE MET.

VANCOUVER, Dec. 23.

The Canadian Paper Controllei today sized seven carloads of re wsprint on tin vay from Ontario mills to the United States,

The Controller will not release the ship ments until the mills provid' sufficient taper for several Winnipeg publications which are reported to bo in danger of ceasng publication owing to lack of supplies.

A message received f on D cembr 17 tatrd that the Canadian Government had nnpowered the Minister for Customs to prohibit the export of paper for newspaper* vhere the manufacturers failed to supply the demand of the Canadian newspapers. A further ord'T was passed by the Govrnment giving power to the Newsprint • Controller, Mr Pringle, to prohibit the export of p-'per by any company refusing to ■omply with his regulations. The order was the result of an intimation bv a number of paper companies that they decline to he guided bv the controller’s price for the fixing and distribution of orders. *lt was Mat'd that a number of big Canadian papers would have had to cease publication : f the controller had not been given this newer. \ There is a famine in the United States, md the temptation of the Canadian mills to export their whole output is very great. \ notification was served upon the controller by certain manufacturers that thev would -eas - ' on January 1 to supply paper in Canada on any such conditions.