HIGH COST OF PAPER.
OPERATIONS OF ALLEGE© AMERICAN COMBINE
i-.Uc.-Tel. Copyright-ijnited Press, Assn) . , L .MELBOURNE, AtgTfF '' A deuptation from the E*ovincial I raw Association asked the Mfinster for Customs for- relief from the/operSioS of the paper-producnig combine said to exist m the United States and Canada! Ihe deputation suggested, .that newp puntmg paper should .be admitted free. or; if taxed, not above 5 per cent, and m any case no preference be granted Canadian paper till a searching inquiry had been made into the methods of th« American and the Canadian combine ire' cornering eh jpping and m exhorting unjust profits. It was stated that an American paper combine had established itself m Canada and controls the who-e of the freight lines to Australia exacting a profit on paper of fully 100. per cent, above >be pre-war figure *u?tt3^?'* ter W™** the deputation that the Government would do nothing to play into the hands of the combine
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14983, 9 August 1919, Page 3
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157HIGH COST OF PAPER. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14983, 9 August 1919, Page 3
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