LAUNDRY SOAP SHORTAGE
LACK OF TALLOW IN SYDNEY
SYDNEY, December 17. The newest among Sydney’s shortages is laundry soap, although there is an adequate supply of toilet and the highest grades. The world-wide shortage of tallow is responsible, but merchants claim that the position has been aggravated by the faulty operation of the Commonwealth Government tallow pool. The pool strikes an average between the exported and locally sold tallow, but the operation has coincided with a drop in locally auctioned tallow from 200 to 50 tons a week. Australian tallow sells in England for as much as £lOO, and in America for £l3O a ton, but the local pric*’ is only £27 15s. Merchants claim that too much tallow is being exported, and that manufacturers are holding supplies to force up the price, and that the more expensive types of soap are being made because of the greater orofits in the Christmas trade.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25061, 18 December 1946, Page 9
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