TYRES AND TUBES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 89, 11 July 1944, Page 6

TYRES AND TUBES

COLLECTION OF RUBBER SUNDRIES TOO COSTLY Because .sundry types of waste rubber such as discarded hot water bottles, etc., involve cosily and uneconomic processing the National Council for the Reclamation of Waste Material lias decided to discontinue their collection. J Advice of this has been received in Paeroa and it is .stated that as those classes contain so much fibre and tilings other than rubber, industrial processing would be too costly. Tii future the National Council has. decided, on the advice of the Ministry of Supply t to concentrate on the collection of tyres and tubes. "Our supply of sundry rubber goods docs not amount to much as the collection has slackened oil considerably," said Mr R. L. Darlcy. secretary of the Paeroa Patriotic Committee. "Recently trucks ot rubber railed to Penrose consisted mainly of tyres and tubes." Australian, Canadian and United States sources all indicate that the demand for waste, rubber now centres on used tyres and tubes for reclamation Avork and that the collection of other rubber goods is to be discontinued. Most of the sundry types of rubber goods had been disposed of, states the circular from the National Council, but the council had decided to dump or destroy the. unwanted material in hand, A warning is given that all used tyres, and other than declared ?tock, according to war regulations, arc regarded as the propety of the State and should therefore be. handed in or made available to any waste reclamation committee as authorised agents of the Ministry of Supply. During the past two years committees affiliated to the National Council had supplied over 2000 tons of waste rubber goods to the mills at Penrose and Woolston, the former plant being provided with its quota of 1000 tons, sufficient to cover at least 12 months' requirements. The South Island stocks salvaged, however, had not yielded the same tonnages, and therefore North Island collections had to be drawn upon to meet the weekly usage of 15 tons, which, when reclaimed, provided battery box 'dough' (7000 boxes per month for the eastern zone in India), together with 1,250000 rubber soles and heels for the Pacific forces, and hciuw soles for gumboot.s, now so widely called for for farming, mining and other essential occupations. The circular concludes by thanking on behalf of the Minister of Supply, Hon. D. C. Sullivan, the public for their past efforts, in. collecting sundry rubber goods and asks for a renewed effort in the collection of tyres and tubes so urgently required for essential war purposes.