NEWSPRINT PROBLEM.
AN INDIAN SOLUTION.
[Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association] (Received Thursday, 1.20 a.m.) LONDON, May 4.
An Indian Government celulose expert named Raitt, .addressing the Society of Arts, and referring to the dearness of newsprint, owing to the reduced supply of wood, estimated that the world's consumption of paper was 12,000,000 tons annually. He said investigations by the Indian- Forest Research Institute had showed that only two vegetalke substances were economically valuable for papermaking, namely, bamboo and Savannah grass. Mr Raitt expressed the opinion that Burma, Bengal and South-west India could produce ten million tons of bamboo pulp annually and Assamf three million tons of Savannah grass. Therefore, India could produce pulp for the whole world. There were prospects that bamboo unbleached pulp would be delivered in the United Kingdom at a cost of £l6 to £lB per ton.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLII, Issue 1808, 5 May 1921, Page 5
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