"WICKED WASTE"
TALLOW BURNING SCANDAL. BELOW CQST PRICE CONDEMNED. At last night's meeting of the Blenheim branch of the Farmers' Union reference was made to the tallow wastage forced upon the Dominion by the uneconomic price. "I came across a man who was burning 40 gallons of tallow a week," said Mr L. C. Chaytor. "He just couldn't afford to save it — although last war every scrap had to be saved and we need it just as much this time." Mr A. S. Draper: Another man bought empty kerosene tins -at 2/6 each. He shipped the tins, each with about 351 bs of tallow, to Wellington. He didn't get enough over bare cost to pay for the tins. Mr Chaytor: It is a scandalous and wicked sham-e that this waste of essential war material should be forced on the people. If we got bitumen tins and shipped the tallow we're now burning to Russia, they'd be glad enough to have it and go to the trouble of clearing the bitumen from it. Mr Draper: Tallow prices are very low, yet the price of soap and candles is going up. Mr J. B. Barnett: It is costing farmers something to get rid of their tallow but the price compels it and the Government has declined to alter the price.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 245, 17 October 1942, Page 4
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218"WICKED WASTE" Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 245, 17 October 1942, Page 4
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