Paper Mills, etc.

One of the industries that it is surprising to find flourishing in such a comparatively young community, is that of paper making. There axe two paper mills in the Otago district.

The Woodhaugh Paper Mill is owned by Messrs. Fergusson and Mitchell of Princes street, and has been rendered as perfect as possible. Here, old rags, ropes, tussocks, or old canvas, are converted into serviceable brown or grey paper, a great quantity of which is made up into paper bags on the premises by the nimble fingers of female workers. Blotting paper of an excellent quality is alsoproduced. Printingpaper has beenmanuf actured, but although a capital article, it could not be produced at a saleable price, as against the same description imported.

The Mataura Falls Paper Mills are the property of Messrs Coulls. Culling and Co. of Dunedin. The whole of the machinery and plant is of modern type, and the mills are enabled to turn out paper of first class quality. Paper-bag making by machinery is carried out to a great extent at these mills. The firm's city premises are in Crawford street, Dunedin.

The New Zealand Paper Bag Manufacturing Co. have well-fitted-up premises in Moray Place, with machinery and every facility for turning out well finished paper bags in large quantities.