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Vor. 2.| | NOVEMBER, 1920. “Qo. — [No. 11. 
EDITOR'S NOTES. Saar 
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Paper Manufacture in Australia. 
<= N the October number of this Journal, Mr. I. H. Boas, the 
officer in charge of the Forest Products Investigations, 
alluded to the experiments being carried out by the Institute 
into the paper-making qualities of Australian woods. An 
important point mentioned by him was that one of the largest paper 
companies in Canada was now using 15 per cent. of hardwood in its 
pulp for newsprint. Later information has been received that the pro- 
portion of hardwood pulp has been increased to 25 per cent. Compelled 
by the world-wide scarcity of softwoods, this company has, as the result 
of its experiments, exploded the fallacy that hardwoods could not be 
utilized, and has translated into commercial practice the discoveries of 
its laboratory. tet 
This fact is of considerable interest to Australia. Mr. Boas stated 
that Australia had never made any serious attempt to supply her own 
needs in the way of paper. Yet, although the possibilities of such a 
development have never been explored, it is generally accepted that 
large-scale utilization of our hardwoods for paper-making is too stupid 
even to contemplate. It is well within the memory of the present 
generation when the idea of growing wheat for export in New South 
Wales was ridiculed. Nature had intended that country 4s a sheep and ~ 
cattle run, and such it ought to remain. Almost every development, 
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