SCAVENGERS
RUSH FOR CIGARETTE BUTTS. United Frees Association- By Electric •Telegraph—Copyright). ■ i (Received this dav at 9. a.m.> PARIS, August 13. Picking up cigarette and cigar ends is such a flourishing trade that a trade union of scavengers is being 'formed with -a view to organising the industry and adopting such a reform as a maximum of eight hours a day. Owing to the intense tourist traffic, the industry is now in a state . .of ..chaos. Cafes frequented by visitors are crowded with tobacco scavengers; who :pounee on discarded cigarettes and cigars. Fights between pickers-up are of quite a common occurrence. Vendors of secondhand tobacco are alleged to make between sixty and eighty shillings a month; After filling their pockets they go home and port the ends, according to quality, selling each pile when: it amounts ,to a pound in weight. Apart* from the big cafes where American tourists congregate, thewhere excited spectators frenziedly light cigarette after cigarette and throw them away, is the scavenger’s best hunting ground.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1929, Page 6
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