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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2047, 28 October 1919, Page 4

Tho Disposal Board of the Ministry of Munitions lias acquired a largo and varied assortment —many hundreds of thousands of them, in fact —of “tin lulls'!” There will be three grades of tin hats on sale: — (1) New and complete with leather linings; (2) second-hand, still very serviceable and ready to wear; (3) souvenir helmets, fitted with shrapnel holes. Purchasers of Grade 3, it was explained, will include those anxious to impress x on posterity “what daddy did in the great war.” There are many uses to which the helmets can be put, Caxton House points out, of which the following are examples:—They can be worn in mines and during strike riots. They make splendid rose-bowls and fern-stands, when fitted with legs. They are easily converted into poultry feeding troughs. In case tho home demand should not equal the supply, the Disposal Board lias been making inquiries in China, with a view to exporting the surplus tin hats, to be employed in the Celestial Empire as feeding-bowls. A market is also to be sought among the natives of South Africa in this line. ■Among other suggested uses for the hats are that thej«should be treated as wash-basins, dinner-gongs, and saucepans. .