. Hardware merchandising March-June 1915 . atleast until the end of the war and untilmatters get adjusted and the supplyequals the demand for this particulararticle. Zinc formerly came into thiscountry free of cost, as far as duty wasconcerned. The zinc that we are usingnow comes from the United States wherethere are two mills operating andwhich has to supply practically thewhole world and in addition it now hasto bear a war tax of 7y2 per zinc has always even in ordin-ary times been much more expensivezinc so that when the Belgium zinc wastaken off the market. Canadian manu-fact
. Hardware merchandising March-June 1915 . atleast until the end of the war and untilmatters get adjusted and the supplyequals the demand for this particulararticle. Zinc formerly came into thiscountry free of cost, as far as duty wasconcerned. The zinc that we are usingnow comes from the United States wherethere are two mills operating andwhich has to supply practically thewhole world and in addition it now hasto bear a war tax of 7y2 per zinc has always even in ordin-ary times been much more expensivezinc so that when the Belgium zinc wastaken off the market. Canadian manu-facturing trade have had to pay Ameri-can prices, which were still higher inaddition to many advances made owingto the heavy demands made on the pro-duction, which was not equal to the de-mand. Toronto Sales Sarnia Metal Products Co., Sar-nia, Ont., have appointed Geo. W. Brit-nell, vice-president Toronto BuildersExchange, as Toronto sales manager,with offices in the Builders Exchange,154 Simcoe Street, Toronto. 52 April 17, MONTREAL. MONTREAL, April 15.—New quo-tations on paints covering ageneral advance are in effect to-day. The immediate result is the in-crease in the base quotation of 10c allround; however, so wide are the effectsof the adjustments under way that itwill be a matter of a couple of weeksperhaps before all the changes in var-nishes and other miscellaneous lines arecompleted by the different houses. The advance of 10c is only the gen-eral effect of the change, for there aremany lines where the increase in theprice will be materially above this, asstated last week on this page. The brightreds are particularly affected on ac-count of tbe difficulty in securing colorimports. In fact, the situation is suchthat if the existing conditions continuefor any considerable period certainshades will have to be entirely with-drawn—some manufacturers are alreadydepending upon their stocks on hand tofill orders and have ceased putting upsome lines. In the dr
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