WHAT BECOMES OF ALL THE PINS?

Kumara Times, Issue 1092, 31 March 1880, Page 3

WHAT BECOMES OF ALL THE PINS?

■ ,; • . -r—♦ : It is now (says a London paper), as much as forty years since the daily supply of pins from the English factories was twenty millions, and ever since that time the daily average has steadily increased, till it now stands at fiftymillions per day. Notwithstanding all this enormous supply, one can hardly .be in the company of man, woman, or child for a day without being asked, “ Have you such a thing As a pin about you 1” Of our daily 50,000,000 feirminghara produces 37,000,000, leaving 13,000,000 as the production of London, Stroud, and Dublin, where pins are also made. The weight of wire consumed annually in the pin manufacture of England is aboiit 1275| tons, dr 2,857,1201b5, one-eighth of which is iron wire, used in manufacturing nourning and hair pins. The brass wire consumed amounts to 2,500,0001b5, which, at lid per lb in money value, reaches the sum of 344,8001b5, its value is £7184 6s 6d, and ,to be added to these amoUnfcs Are the wages, paper, and ornamental envelopes, boxes, wear and tear of machinery, manufacturers* profits and the like, bfingihg the whole amourit to not less than £200,000;