Over-enthusiastic football fans have a charming way of throwing all sorts of things, like toilet rolls, into one's garden in an exuberance of spirit.
One week the big item is the washing up liquid, the next week toilet rolls.
People would sneak over to the continent with lorries and bring them back full of toilet rolls.
That does not mean that those schools should not have toilet rolls.
The warden of a college offering advanced courses in further education said that there was a steady rate of loss of toilet rolls from lavatories.
In addition, toilet rolls are thrown on to the pitch and a lot of rubbish has to be swept away after the games.
It is desirable that that paper should be collected and that it should find its way into toilet rolls.
Toilet rolls were not subsidised, but the scarcity was real.