The Useful Kerosene Tin

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 51, 14 June 1940, Page 45

The Useful Kerosene Tin

Dear Aunt Daisy, -.I shave several kerosene tins, and would like you to advise me of some ways in which I could make use of them. Ihave several tins of a well-known and popular super enamel here tco, and Ido want to know what pretty things I could ,make. So far, I've made only one-I cut the tin long-ways just above the. little handle, and placed it in a box, and it now serves us for our samp, for holding cutlery. It pulls out just like a drawer, from the box.-"Mabel Waititi," (Cape Runaway). Here is your answer, Mabel, from Te Awamutu: Dear Aunt Daisy, I. heard your call this morning asking if anyone knew how to use kerosene tins, the call being on behalf of a Maori lady. Well, Aunt Daisy, here are two ways I thought of immediately: Cut the tin in half, and snip the edges of each half into points. Paint the two halves on the outside, and also about half-way down from the top on the inside. Then curl the tin points backwards to the outside of the tin, and you have two: lovely pot plant holders. You can also make nice dustpans out of kerosene tins. Now I would like to know something, Aunt Daisy. You know that little replica of .an ox-waggon which you described to us once, and which you brought back from Colombo-well, my little boy has one of them. Now, can you tell me what the short bundle of sticks on one side

of the waggon is for, and what the round knob affair on the other side is for?-"Pattie,’ (Te Awamutu). Well, the "round knob" is a little barrel of water, for drinking purposes. I don’t know what the little bundle of sticks were for, unless perhaps to build a fire, but they look more like cane! I did not notice either of these things on the real ox-waggons we passed on our way from Kandy to Nuwara Eliya. Perhaps someone else will write and tell us.