WAR EFFORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1940, Page 7

WAR EFFORT

EXAMPLE OF DETERMINATION. SALVAGE COLLECTION. An example of the determination with which the youth of England are entering into the war effort is shown in the following lists of salvage collected by a boy and a girl both aged 13, who won a competition organised in a London radio station’s children's hour. The time allowed was one month. Girl's Effort. Motor car 7 mowing machines 1 harrow 1 ploughshare 3 cultivators 3 large stoves 1 piano 36 bicycles 10 prams 2 motor cycles 3 sewing machines 5 tons of paper 3.500 cardboard milk bottle tops 860 aluminium kettles, pans, etc. Bcwt aluminium scrap 3,000 tins. I 9 tons of odd scrap metals Boy’s Collection. 1 large box of tools 1,000 gallon water tank lOlcwt scrap iron 7 lengths of guttering 1 manufacturers knitting machine 1 large iron fountain 6 iron bedsteads (and wire mattresses) 5 huge oil drums Metal parts of a caravan 7 stacks of paper 1 bundle of stair rods The young man telegraphed to Crewe asking if the railway company would give him a railway engine. The reply came that they regretted that they could not do so as they had their own salvage system.