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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 490, 25 March 1881, Page 3

( In future, all magazines, pamphlets, etc., received at the Dead Letter office of the United States, instead of being sold as waste paper, are to be distributed among charitable and reformatory institutions in and around Washington. i An attempt 13 being made in the United States to utilise paper for the making of j the barrels in which petroleum and kerosene are sent to this country and elsewhere. Few persons are aware that the cost 0 the barrels now used is comparatively low, but the number used is so enormous that a saving of 1 per cent, per b-irrel would add 300 dollars a day to the income of the com pany. The barrels are made and painted by machines tended by two men and a boy, which turn out; 1200 as a day's work, at a cost of 1 dollar 25 cents each ; and as the ( company makes 30,000 a day, an economy of only a cent, is equivalent to a saving of \ £60. Compressed paper pulp, much of * which is made from stewed sawdust, is a 1 material of surprising strength, but if the I barrel niakeis succeed in their efforts to reduce the cost by even two or three cents ' it remains to be seen what is to be done " with the empty barrels. At present the wooden c&sks are made into washing tubs, and at the worst are excellent firewood ; perhaps the paper barrels will not be so useful here.