PRICES OF SOAP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 224, 21 September 1935, Page 4

PRICES OF SOAP.

WHY THEY HAVE ADVANCED.

TWO PRINCIPAL FACTORS,

Housewives in New Zealand h,v since the beginning of this year h watching with dismay the prices of steadily increasing in the retail „!! oai> from 8d to about 1/1 a ij ar opß inquiries made, it appears that fu olll are two* principal underlying fw'" 1 this price movement. One i« tli» 6 .'1 in the United States from drought, and the other is the hu® increased demand by many country?" glycerine, which is used in th» !! 0r facture of explosives. fflanu. A representative of New 7„,i ~ largest soap-making firm said that from which glycerine is extract*! ' bought a year to eighteen niontk at as low a price as £14 a a ß° to-day the cost to the firm was ton. For the production of slw a New Zealand tallow is B ent abroad ft price of glycerine for soap-maker), importation recently increased by £ii 0D half ton, and yesterday it went up another The most rapid increases in the price, of tallow and glycerine have taken *i, since the beginning of this year i? New Year the average price a ton ?vf Zealand currency) paid by the countri! importing Kew Zealand tallow I £18,96; in the succeeding months to! prices have increased as follows February, £21.17; March, £23 27£25.34; May, £25.74; June, Tnl' £27.23. ' ■>