RUBBER DRIVE TODAY

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 19, 17 October 1942, Page 6

RUBBER DRIVE TODAY

Beginning At 9 O’clock

Today is the day of the waste rubber drive in Wellington and Lower Hutt, though it has been so thoroughly advertised that nothing more than a last-minute reminder should be necessary now. What is wanted is anything, no matter how old, made of rubber or containing an appreciable quantity of rubber. The organizers request that it be ready, preferably near the gate of the house, by 9 a.m., eo that the children who will be collecting it will not be delayed. The children will take the rubber to L>o dumps about the district, which will be in charge of Boy Scouts. E.V.S. street wardens will go round their neighbourhoods later in the day to ■make sure the collection has been made thoroughly, and Army trucks will take the rubber, to a central depot. It will be sold to rubber mills and the proceeds will go to the Patriotic Fund. . When the Girl Guides held a drive for rags a' few weeks ago some of the bundles of rags got into the wrong hands’. It is believed that a professional rag and bone man collected all the rags that had been put outside houses in one suburban street before the girls came along. Rubber is not likely to be stolen today, for though it is so precious to the nation, there is not a market for it in the ordinary way.