PARAFFIN WAX.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1496, 19 July 1912, Page 6

PARAFFIN WAX.

AND THE PKICE OF CANDLES. Some controversy has arisen in Wellington ever a statement by Mr E Bui Co" a^en fO1 "' t!lC **?, fVt of fh pru s o '' , ! (Ie ' nco Mora the I ? iT "'"" Conniiisiion on the subject of the price of paraffin wax am its jfr fr'i ?,\ ,h f prico ° f *«K 'Hi. Bull stated, that (lie pi-ice of paraffin wax, which is a staple ingredient <rf candles, had fallen bv Jd. per b and that this fall had been reflected 'in a rCll Vf io » ''» the Priw" of .candle,,. Plus evidence was not regarded seriouslr by Mr. Mniiton. of the firm of Messrs.. Ellis and M« iton, who d" » similar trade and in The DomiL-.ov of Manton had called at The Domixiok Office, and produced invoices from Me«rs Jnn.es Sorvico and Co., .of Melbourne,' agents for the Standard Oil Co., in JW'oT 11C ; H ,O T' ng "} ftt W»-«tt February, 1910, and ]ast month, the price of paraffin wax had receded from 2Jd. per lb. to Igd S h; l^, " th M e ymTS - Mr - Jlant °n states that his evidence was bayed on the invoices for wax his firm had bought during the pened mentioned. By way of rejoinder, Mr. Bull called at ttiK DqjiiNiojf Office yesterday, and submitted invoices of paraffin wax consigned to the Kew Zealand Caudle Co. hy. Messrs. James Service and Co., of Melbourne. The Candle Co., he explained, used the high-grade 122 degree standard ot paraffin wax, but this difference in tho quality of tho wax was apart from the fall in price ns there was a correfponding decline in the other grade. Mr Bull, remarking that Mr. Manton had me rely given figures for two years and a half, and not th'ree years ns stated, quioted from his invoices to show that according to invoices covering consignments discharged on June 8, 1909, tho pTico then was 2Jd. Since then it had gradually dropped in .price from 2}d. in 1909 to 2d. •(almost)-23d., 2»d.. 2Jd. 2 l-lGd.;,and lastly to 2d. Air. Bull also submitted a letter from Messrs. Phillips and Pike in reference to prices in which the writers stated that the priw of 118 20-degroe paraffin wax in ISOS, and up till May, 1909, wn.s 23d ' iier ll>. In 1911 it had declined to Ijd., which was eciual to a droj) of 3d.