NO AUSTRALIAN TALLOW AT PEGGED PRICES
Received Thimsday, 9.50 p.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 23. Manufacturers of tallow said today that the Government could not force them to sell at the Australian pegged price of £28 a ton when it could he sold overseas for up to £130 a ton. They admitted that there were adecjuate stocks of tallow in store in Sydney and the coimtry districts. New South Wales is in the middle of a soap famine which particularly affects laundry soap and the cheaper grades. Apparently the manufacturers are prepared to withhold supplies knowing that tallow will keep indefinitely. Last Octoher the Federal Government placed an embargo on exports of tallow except that made under Government licence. The manufacturers are keen to have the embargo removed so that they can compete on the international market, hnt this would mean a continued shortage of soap here or an immediate increase in prices.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 January 1947, Page 5
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