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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21185, 4 November 1938, Page 14

“These stories about a single issue of a newspaper wiping out a few acres of forest are rubbish,” said Mr D. Stenstrom, a representative of the Canadian newsprint industry, who arrived in Auckland by the Aorangi with the object of making a goodwill tour of New Zealand. Mr Stenstrom said that Australia and New Zealand were the largest users of newsprint, per capita, in the world. The annual consumption in New Zealand was 25,000 tons and in Australia 150,000 tons. With a consumption approaching 1,500,000 tons, England was a very large consumer, while America, which got through 4.000,000 tons of newsprint per annum, used half the world’s output. Canada’s consumption was the same as Australia’s.