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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 120, 23 May 1942, Page 8

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CAUTION TO COLLECTORS

A warning to patriotic committees in remote country districts regarding the collection of waste materials was issued to-day by Dr. E. P. Neale, Auckland, provincial supervisor for the reclamation of waste materials. Although there is a definite shortage in New Zealand of paper and most metals, it does not necessarily follow that it is wise for people in remote country districts to spend time and energy in the collection of all kinds of waste materials. Although there is a shortage of iron and steel in New Zealand, there is for example, not the plant in New Zealand to reutilise many forms of these metals. The same remarks apply to tins.

"The position as regards paper," writes Dr. Neale, "is that, although it is an economic proposition, and indeed, a patriotic duty to conserve waste paper at the main centres and in the immediate vicinity of the paper mills, the same remark , no means applies to places differi Ua T e £" For instance, only this week I have been embarrassed by being asked to accept delivery of of P a P er forwarded a £22-1 J striQ } sorr * e 230 miles from Auckland under conditions such that the freight charges amounted to ?hif r< ?£ imatel y four times the sum that the patriotic funds could expect Spe™ ' Se f " the dlsposal «

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