446 



PAPER IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



IMPORTS. 



The quantities and values of paper imported during 1897, the 

 latest year for which official statistics are available, are given in 

 the Statistical Register of Victoria as follows: 



The principal firms importing paper into the colony all of Mel- 

 bourne and of about equal importance are the following: 

 Alexander Cowan & Co., Limited, Little Flinders street. 

 William Detmold, Limited, Little Flinders street. 

 Busbridge & Co., 430 Bourke street. 

 Sands & McDougall, Limited, 365 Collins street. 

 Gordon & Gotch, 124 Queen street. 

 Jas. Spicer & Sons, 315 Flinders lane. 

 Phaff, Pinschof & Co., Little Flinders street. 



DUTIES. 



The duty on paper in the colony of Victoria is as follows: 



Cut, 4 cents per pound. 



Advertising matter, printed or lithographed, or any printed plates, lithographs, 

 pictures, cards, calendars, almanacs, or matter of a similar description used or de- 

 signed for use for advertising purposes, 8 cents per pound. 



Other, $1.46 per cwt. (112 pounds). 



Paper bags, $2.43 per cwt. 



Paper boxes, including paper or cardboard (with or without printing), cut into 

 shapes for wrapping or boxing, 25 per cent ad valorem. 



Cardboard and pasteboard, 97 cents per cwt. 



Paper, being printing and writing, in original wrappers and with uncut edges 

 as it leaves the mill, paper hangings, and millboard (including gray millboard), free. 



Specially prepared for making gun or blasting cartridges, free. 



Vegetable parchment (used for. packing and wrapping butter), free. 



Paper, writing, fancy wrappers, 35 per cent ad valorem. 



Paper, all printed, ruled, or engraved forms of, bound or unbound, 35 per cent 

 ad valorem. 



Paper or cardboard (with or without printing), cut into shapes for wrapping or 

 boxing, 25 per cent ad valorem. 



