Why Not ?
p. 11 · Read in the full issue
I UNDERSTAND that the Lever soap works in Balmain, Sydney, use over 20,000 tons of copra annually, and that all that copra comes from Levers’ own plantations in the Solomons”, writes “Planter”.
“Why should Australia give that ad vantage to the Solomons, a non-Aus tralian territory, and to Levers, one of the great combines and our natural enemy, while there are Australian planters in distress in Australian terri tories?
“Why shouldn’t Levers be compelled to use some part of the Australian Terri tories’ copra, and so bear some part of the common troubles of our industry?”