NEWSPRINT MAKING.
INDUSTRY IN AUSTRALIA. OPTIMISM AFTER RESEARCH. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY. Aug. IS. It is announced on behalf of tho Federal Government that there is every reason to believe, as a result of the work of tho Council of Scientific Research, that a process has been developed by means of which newsprint may be produced in Australia at a price sufficiently low to enable it to compete with the imported material. Private interests intend to spend £50,000 in testing the process on a semicommercial scale. The quantity of local hardwoods used in the manufacture of newsprint in Australia has doubled in the last five years, having increased from 60,000 tons to 120,000 tons a year and a value of £2,250,000.
The Sydney Morning Herald comments that there is little reason to doubt that the "efforts to manufacture paper locally will be crowned with success, and will eventually mean a swing to Australia of more than £2,000,000 a year.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19719, 19 August 1927, Page 11
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