SOAP AND HISTORY
Viscount Leverhulme, in his presidential address to the Institution of Chemical Engineers in London, said that tho use of soap wns an indication of a nation's wealth and degree of civilisation. Judged by this test, Rome took a high place in ancient civilisation. Lord Leverhulme traced the history of soap-making from its earliest days, and said: "It is difficult to discern even the rudiments of your technology in the primitive hut "fully equipped soap factory of Pompeii, revealed hv tho discovery of actual bars of soap made on the day when tho eruption of Vesuvius overwhelmed the city." l Lord Leverhulme, who was re-elected president, said that for a long time from the days of Queen Elizabeth soap manufacture was hampered by heavy taxation. The taxation was abolished by Mr. Gladstone. " Now you know," bo added amid laughter, " what Air Gladstone said in 1853."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21467, 15 April 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)
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147SOAP AND HISTORY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21467, 15 April 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)
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