MATCH WASTE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2799, 17 June 1916, Page 11

MATCH WASTE

62.'LIGHTED BY 3 MEN IN 3-MILE ' WALIC "• ' " ."The other day. in-,a couatry.walk I: followed for about three milfis three men 'who .were smoking, and I counted sixty,t\vo matches struck by tliose three'inen/' said the - Recorder of Pontefra'ct; York-shire,-Mr. E. H. Vernon Wxagge, at the Quarter Sessions recently. ,• . - Eeducing distances- into time, allowing ' that.the.men.were travelling at three, mifts an. hour, and disregarding fractions, "\ve.make the. tal>le, from the basis of the Recorder's'observations,' ultimately,;worting out, tliat each smoker .used eighty matches a day,, thus: v; ••• ' 3 ,mile's ...r.........-...'.'....l hour.- - ; : 1 ■'hpui , >:'i::.;>i;;-..v.-: : .i.;.:'.i.....'. GO- matches. - ;1 minute"inatoh'.' 3 smokers-.:. 1 match each in 3 mins. ■ ~ • Each- iuhh' smoking v.. "4 ; hours a da}'. . 1 smoker ..:.'.'l..::::..':'Bo ; matches',a day. p.' : -The Itecorder estimated-; that • 25,000,000 people "used matches every-day and if only one match Was' saved by each "per-' eon'dail'y there; would-" 1 be;, half a 'million boxes; e'ach containing 50 matches, saved every; day, or 182;5fl0,fl00 ■ boxes in • the year. At a lialfpenny a box this, would, mean' .£380,000. • ■ Trifling economy, it might also be stated, on the part of such match strikers iiS'tho Eecorder observer would easily raise this to iBiIOOO.OOO a year, '