Nuhou, Volume II, Number 22, 10 October 1873 — Paper [ARTICLE]

Paper

t : "T ■ ; ■ -.-■■ Should be manufK*ture() in bhnJc T have the material for tt[e article, and our consumption would give! employmcnt to quiie ; manufactory. The bandna wuuld a3ord the *c.i abundant materialj but |the wauke or l>roiLij ■: , tia papyrtfera wou!d aSbrd the stoutest ;:nl r ?-I Btock for the manufacture of paper. There is a lively demand among manuEiCtL:.v of all countries for a c|ieap pap»er stcck. It \ said that about $100 a ton is a price that man facturers of the United $tates could well affōrd k give for an abundantcertain material fjr p.-. per manufacture. Our wauke bark, thc ciater'.-. for native tappa; and, prepared in a state . ' puip would no doubt find a ready eale witli L: eign paper ma#iufactui;crs; but it wouli l , highly unwiee for us to ,establish an export th;r. would help to denude otjr forest lands; ani if v., did eo, the material ought to be utilized by manufacture. However ? as regards tue wauke could no doubt be readily cultivatcd in fields uk: the morus multicaulis f ar|d wouidyielda suscieL supply of bark after two or three years* growt!. But as we don't proposp csport of paper stj;k, thercfore the material we have io the couatry whethcr of wauke bark to a moderatc cstenu o hemp hanana, or olona, or fibrous material whie. we have in abundaneej might bc employcd t great advantage in the production of a ehea; Bupply of paper for our home consumption. 1; would.be interesting to see a fine Ilawaiian j\. per* apon whieh cultivated Hawaiian were printed» succeed the tappa of thc &av;u. time. |