CONSERVING PAPER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 110, 13 May 1942, Page 4

CONSERVING PAPER

NEW STANDARDS FOR STATIONERY COMMERCIAL RESTRICTIONS. The manufacture of Christmas cards, calendars and similar novelties has to conform to certain restrictions on the weight of the cardboard and the size. Greeting cards, for instance, out of card of specific weight, shall not be more than four inches by seven inches, or its equivalent in area, before being folded. Similar cards ot heavier weight malerial are restricted in size, before foldins. to four inches

by three and a-quarter inches. Pictorial calendars, pocket calendars, advertising calendars are alsc considerably restricted in size, and the quantity of advertising calendars which may be produced is to be not more than 75 per cent, of that in 1941. It. is further provided that greeting cards may not be manufactured from materials imported after February 28 of this year. Until the end of this year, however, dealers may sell articles which were in sock at February 28 which do not conform with the specifications set out under the new restrictions. provided that the vendor was not the manufacturer. Goods that were in process of manufacture on February 28 may be completed and offered lor sale till the end of the present year, but particulars of the goods must be supplied to the factory controller. Limit of Printing Orders. Limits are also fixed for the supply of printed matter to any purchaser. These orders, when added to stocks in hand and supplies from any other source, are not to exceed the total supplies of a purchaser based on the aggregate requirement for six months, calculated on the moni.nly average quantity used during 1941. If a purchaser did not use any of the materials during the year 1941 the amount he may now purchase for a six months’ supply is to be fixed by the factory con t roller. The size of commercial stationery is also fixed by the regulations, and also the margins for use for Hunting purposes and the amount of printing that may be on the paper. In future no headed letter-paper shall ' exceed in size Bin. by 7in. and no invoice delivery note or statement shall, inclusive of any perforated portion, but! or counterfoil, exceed in size 9in. by 7 2-3 in., unless intended for use with mechanical book-keeping or invoicing machines. Cheque forms, labels, tags, admission tickets etc., are also governed in size. No new advertising material may be printed or distributed unless the person printed similar material at the same time within the period of 12 nonths prior to the coming into force af the new regulations, and no person may commence the printing of any advertising material without the prior consent ol the factory controller. Size of Periodicals. Printers of periodicals have to furnish to the factory controller, within 30 days of the coming into operation Df the regulations, proposals lor the reduction of the quantity of paper used for the periocth al by not less than 25 per cent, of the quantity of paper so used in the year 1938 or such other period as the controller may determine. No person may, after 30 days, print any issue of a periodical except in accordance with the approval of the controller given to a proposal submitted as above stated. Writing pads, ruled manuscript books duplicating books come under the restrictions and all writing pads must show on the cover the number Df leaves contained in the pad, on A-hich restrictions are also placed. Even reporters' and stenographers' notebooks are restricted as Io the sizp nf the leaves and number of leaves per book. i." inally, a prohibition is placed on the manufacture of such lines as lunch wraps, festoons, confetti. carnival novelties, d'oyleys, serviettes and :ab]e-clolhs, library book covers, dreamers, decorations, cake frills, nand towels, facial tissues, shirtboards, stiffeners and collarbands.