SHORTAGE OF TIN-PLATES.
mm TO WAR. DEMANDS
<Received April 5, 8.50 p.m.) LONDON, April 5.
Overseas jam, tinned meat, condensed milk, and 'other industries using "tin-plates are seriously threatened ©wing to a. shortage, due to the Ministry of Munitions' demands upon manufacturers for steel and the restriction of Output to tin-plates required for war contracts, for which manufacturers must give a certineate.
The existing demand largely exceeds the supply, which Avill he curtailed a further 30 per cent, this month. The present quotation in 32s 3d per box, compared with 13s 9d bejore the war.
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Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 82, 6 April 1916, Page 5
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