COLLECTING WASTE METAL.
Octolier 1 (to-morrow week) lias been fixed for the collection of waste metals within tlie Kairanga County Council, and arrangements have been made for a motor lorry in each riding to collect the contributions at the farm gates. It is emphasised that only metals of the non-iron nature arc required this juncture. Tlie metals which may now he collected by country residents in preparation for the visits of the motor lorries are copper (washing coppers, cisterns, coal scuttles, fire screens, etc.), copper wire (pieces of old electric cable flex), brass, bronze and gunmctal (taps, screws, doorstops, rods, old electric light bulbs with the glass broken off, and switches), aluminium (saucepans, kettles, etc.), lead (film tubes, tea wrappings, lead-headed nails, etc.) and zinc (case linings).
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 253, 23 September 1940, Page 8
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127COLLECTING WASTE METAL. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 253, 23 September 1940, Page 8
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