For some years past Australia has been making strenuous efforts to capture a big share of the Far Eastern trade and still is hopeful of getting a firm hold on the market, in spite of the fact that her Trade Commissioner is to be taken away from Shanghai. It is understood now that Australia is concentrating on the papermaking industry and that may give her a big chance here, for most of the paper used locally has to come from the other side of the world, waXgt for her own needs Auszralia has to import about 100,000 tons of paper and pulp per annum. This is manufactured mainly from spruce, hemlock, fir and poplar, and is imported from Canada and
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