HC Deb 31 July 1947 vol 441 c83W
79. Mr. D. Marshall

asked the President of the Board of Trade what steps the is taking to encourage the development of new techniques for paper manufacture from bamboos grown in Cornwall and the West of England, in order to save the purchase abroad of similar products used for paper manufacture.

Sir S. Cripps

I should welcome an increased use of home produced materials, and paper makers are quite free to use bamboo, but the yield of pulp is small and the consumption of coal high.