PRESERVING JARS
STOCKS NOW UNPROCURABLE NO ZINC FROM AUSTRALIA Supplies of preserving jars are now unprocurable throughout New Zealand, and housewives who have left this task until now have a good excuse for postponing it. Further stocks will not be obtainable until early this month, when it will probably be too late in the season to preserve fruit. The difficulty has arisen from an almost unprecedented demand for jars earlier in the year, and the necessary zinc to make the screw tops cannot be obtained i'rrm Austral a. The mills had rolled out all the sheets thought necessaryand were not prepared for the unusually brisk inquiry. Plenty of jars are available from the sole manufacturers in Auckland, but these are useless without the necessary tops. Thp sizes affected are the pint, q uart and half-g allon measures. Another type generally used is a square jar with a glass lid held by wire clips, but these also are unprocurable as no further supplies of wire are available from Australia.
Mercian's in the city are still meeting with a sustained demand, and, although record sales are reported in some instances, many more jars could be sold if the lids were available. Ample supplies of jam jars are procurable.
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Te Puke Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 26, 11 April 1939, Page 6
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206PRESERVING JARS Te Puke Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 26, 11 April 1939, Page 6
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