NO MORE PAPER BAGS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5884, 12 April 1920, Page 2

NO MORE PAPER BAGS

SHOPPERS MUST USE BASKETS.

"There is going to be such an acute . famine in pa.per bags that a great deal of the shopping in the near future will have to be- dVmc with baskets and other receptacles." This prediction was made to a Ghristchureh Sun representative by a merchant, who was pointing out that, in the "near future, a famine in many kinds of paper was a oei'tainty. Whilst the mitiii trouble is concerning supplies of newsprint paper, suppliers abroad are also closing down on orders for paper bags and other kinds of paper. The merchant showed, as cu'dtlac-e of this, a number of cancellations and withdrawals of quotations from Canada arid England. In Wngbwul, it was stated, it is impossible to supply the trade there —let alone export. At one time mills in New Zealaiad produced almost all the pajver bags, etc., that are required. They are now unable ft> secure sufficient snlplilte pulp for the- purpose, and an endeavour is being made—but more or less unsuccessfully—to got these classes of paper from Canada and other countries. The trouble is that tho New Zealand mills have no machinery for puJpiug timber. In Canada, the wood is ground ami chemically treated into a sulphite pulp. The New Zealand manufacturers impbrt tills sulphite pulp and mix it with old paper, tussock, rags, etc. From this i they manufacture pap«T for their speo'al requirements, i