PAPER PACKING
SOS FOR V OLUNTEERS . RELIEF FOR PRESENT WORKERS There is a steady flow of waste paper to the High street depot. Nearly everyone is saving and Woodbourne, for example, delivers 20 sacks of paper to the depot each week. The three packers, reduced to two for the past fortnight, have had more than they could cope with and the appeal for volunteer assistance brought no response. The position is that the two men on deck, who retired nearly 20 years ago but came out to do a necessary patriotic job, have been knockea out. The packing and shipment of five tons for one consignment would have been too heavy a job for much younger men, and with all the goodwill In the world, they will be forced, unless some volunteer assistance is forthcoming, to rest for a time 01* be the central figures in obituary liotices. An SOS for male voiuntary aids is the one means of maintaining Blenheim s splendid waste reclamation record and it is hoped that suflicient patriots can spare the time and energy to save the situatioi^.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 248, 21 October 1942, Page 4
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183PAPER PACKING Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 248, 21 October 1942, Page 4
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