THE VALUE OF RUBBISH.
It is estimated that about £2OOO worth of what is Considered to be “rubbish” is thrown into the streets by the Parisiana every day. This (says the “Westminster Budget”) means nearly £750,000 per annum for the chiffoniers, and counting their wives and families, nearly 100,000 persons live very comfortably upon their share of it. Of course, they only get a proportion of this large amount, because they have to sell to dealers, who dispose of the different things not only to toy-makers but to clever artisans and other specialists who convert odds and ends, bits of morocco leather and pieces of wood and metal into articles de Paris, those delicate, dainty products of skill and ingenu - ity which are bought up with avidity by visitors from all parts of the world.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 2 November 1901, Page 4
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135THE VALUE OF RUBBISH. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 2 November 1901, Page 4
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