SAVING SCRAP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 September 1941, Page 4

SAVING SCRAP

TASK FOR HOUSEWIVES AND OTHERS i ■ 1 . LESSONS FROM EXHIBITION IN MASTERTON. PRODUCTS FROM WASTE MATERIAL. Wars today are largely won or lost in a nation’s factories. The increasing emphasis on the man behind the line makes industry the primary battle-| field. In Napoleon’s day, the weight of an army was 3001 b. a man while today’s estimate is one ton a man. A squadron of 40 Spitfires with eight guns each firing 1250 rounds a minute, use a million rounds in two and a half minutes. Compared with the last war, soldiers now fire rifles three times as fast, travel ten times further in a day and have bombing aeroplanes with a range 32 times greater. The significance of this change in the methods of warfare is illustrated by the exhibition at Messrs Hugo and Shearer's shop of waste materials and the products made from them in this country and others. A wide range of scrap material is embodied in the display, together with examples of finished products and a mass of photographs depicting various processes in manufacture. Everybody can play a part in this vital campaign. Housewives in Britain, for example, in one year saved enough scrap metal to build 20 destroyers and 18,000,000 shells. It is pointed out that in New Zealand, school children use 1,600,000 exercise books every year. This is equal to 80 tons of paper and 10 tons of cardboard. What to save: Clean sacks and sugar bags; bottles, glass jars and containers; corks; dean coloured cloths; cotton rags: old felt; tweeds; newspapers; catalogues; old letters; cartons (not waxed or greasy; i.e.. match boxes, cigarette packets, etc.; telephone books; old music; old business and office books; magazines; periodicals; cardboard boxes; price lists; brown paper: scrap cardboard (all kinds); toothpaste tubes; cosmetic tubes; shaving cream tubes. Aluminium.—Saucepans and kettles. Cast iron—Old fire grates: old cast iron saucepans and kettles; parts of old stoves; lawnmower wheels. Lead. —Old roof gutterings and flashings in and around kitchen, sinks, hand basins and taps: old water pipes; leadheaded nails; photograph film packages; old newspaper blocks: duplicator link tubes; car battery plates; lead tin soldiers; lead foil found in tea chests. Copper and brass. —Old copper kettles and radiators; electric switches; old taps and brass tops of electric lamps; screws and hinges and old yale keys; window fittings; fire screens; curtain rods, brass ornaments; used cartridge cases; old electrical flex. What not to save. —The following items are of no value and should not be saved: Jam tins; bottle caps; immersion heaters: insides of clocks; foil or silver paper; old car number plates; bakalite; rubber; rusting metal other than cast iron; cigarette tins.