It is not practicable to relax the present limitation on the use of manilla to purposes for which suitable substitutes from non-dollar sources are not available.
The quality of the nets is bad; and the sisal rope, which is much more expensive than manilla rope, is nothing like so good for fishing.
The manilla, or wire, ropes, and the blocks and tackles, which are ancillary to that machinery, could all be made in different places, and under different circumstances.
Various commodities are being studied, including tobacco, timber, manilla hemp and so on, for the purpose of seeing what can be done to get increased production from the colonies.
One is the cost of gear, particularly of manilla rope, which is causing the gravest concern and appears to be getting almost out of hand.
The use of manilla paper is already severely restricted by the licensing system.
Other countries can get manilla; why cannot we?
All those benefits are denied to those whose records are held on paper in manilla folders.
