PAPER BAGS.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13933, 16 July 1917, Page 1

PAPER BAGS.

FEAHS OP FAMINE,

MANUFACTURERS CONFIDENT There has been rather a panic created lately over a predicted shortage! of paper bags (says the Sydney' Sun).- In fact, the fear that the prophecy will come true has resulted in one of the bigest paper-bag manufacturing firms having orders to keep them going for at least three months, One agitated firm gave an order for 12,000,000 paper bags, and had to be refused owing to the congestion .caused -'.by similar orders pouring ifi from all directions, The manager of this paper-bag factory, .when interviewed the other day, admitted that there' was certainly a scarcity of "craft"—the brown pffyer used in bag-making—but that the shortage did not warrant such a panic as therd. was at ' present among shopkeepers. Whito paper and tho blue paper used for sugar bags wero not cut in widths sufficient to allow of their taking the place of the craft, ami in any case they were not strong enough, The iiimingor of tho. factory did not anticipate h'Oiiblo for three months, at any rate. After thnty of course, who.could' prophesy anything* There'was no difficulty in bUyi'rig the. necessary pulp, but Uicro was a difficulty in getting it shipped from Canada flri'd; Sweden^

Tho firm in question had at the present time fiOO .tons waiting in Canada. Thoy had lately been offered' freight fqr -ISA. tons at £lB per tori; which' was: out: of- the question,' The price of paper, bags hnil gone up 15 per cputy,\)>i'it': lii' : was sure it. had no\y reached highwnter ti ( ark. | \