CAST IRON WANTED

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1940, Page 4

CAST IRON WANTED

STRATFORD -WASTE DRIVE COUNTY SECTION BEGUN "It seems that many people did not realise that cast iron was required," said an official of the Stratford and distnct committee for the National Council for the Utilisat.ion of Waste when commenting to a Daily News reporter last night on the results of the county section of the waste drive begun by the committee yesterday. "Nevertheless," he said, we are very pleased with the results gained so far— the country people responded willingly and a good collection was made with the four trucks provided by the Stratford County Council." The collection made yesterday covered mainly the eastern and western portions of the ! Stratford county area, and the remain- ' der will be covered to-day, while the town collection will be made to-morrow. The system arranged was for country district residents to bring their contributions of waste materials to schools, factories or other central points in their districts. From these points the materials were collected in the lorries and brought to Stratford, where the metals are stored on a vacant lot, while the cardboard and similar material is stored in a shed at the garage. Smelting at Stratford. "I think it was a mistake," said the committeeman, "to announce the drive as one for non-ferrous metals, for it led marv people to believe that cast iron was "not wanted." He pointed out that while steel or wrought iron was not wanted, cast was of value and could be smelted at Stratford. "The collection in certain areas was excellent," he continued. Cardboard and brown paper and rags formed a large proportion of the collection. There was also much aluminium, brass, brass machinery parts, old lead, batteries, pots and coppers. Although many failed to realise that cast iron was wanted, Tututawa and Puniwhakau had already supplied one truck load, while another was expected to-day. Coilections of material would also be brought in to-day from the Matau and Kiore districts by Mr. McCoard. "A pleasing feature of the collection was that no mistakes were made in the type of material offered," said the official. In this connection he continued by saying that for all a big quantity of material was collected no one used the drive as a refuse removal scheme. All material given followed the lines indicated in the appeals issued by the committee. . . The country section of the drive is being organised with the full co-opera-' tion of the Stratford County Council engineer, Mr. S. R. Mann, and the whole programme is under the direction of the chairman of the town and district committee, Mr. H. S. Sinclair, Stratford.