TIN CONTAINERS
RESTRICTION IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 22. Tin containers for face powders, shaving sticks, cigarettes. boiled sweets, cocoa and many other products will soon disappear from Britain's shops, and many more articles, including soups, fruits, vegetables and condensed milk, will not be sold in smallsized tins. This is a result of an order by the Ministry of Supply which is being issued today’ and which makes new restrictions and prohibitions to divert between 40.000 and 50.000 tons of tinplate and sheet steel yearly to the manufacture of shells. Manufacture for export and also special Government purposes is not affected.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1940, Page 7
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103TIN CONTAINERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1940, Page 7
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