Pat said to Brenton:- In my opinion this is one of the major retrograde forces away from metric measures in Australia. A lot of the 'cheap imports' products that arrive in Australia are made for the USA markets and any surplus products or 'seconds' are dumped in countries such as Australia. This problem should gradually disappear as the USA goes more and more metric.
************** So true. Also frustrating is the lack of cheap bathroom scales with kilos only on them. The big stores still import scales with dual measures (stones and kilos) presumably as a run-off from the UK market. To buy scales with kilos only, you normally have to spend extra to get electronic ones which you can switch to either system. I did write to Big W in 1996 to ask them to import kilos-only scales but got no reply. Dollars talk again!! Sincerely Mike Joy Perth
