SCRAP METAL.
HUGE SAVING EFFECTED. CAMPAIGN IN BRITAIN. (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, November 14. The iron and steel control authorities appeal for scrap brought in, during the first three weeks, 45,000 tons, which otherwise would have been wasted. This ip equal to seven or eight shiploads without shipping risks and loss of foreign exchange. The campaign is expected to produce, additional to scrap from normal sources, 250,000 tons, representing 500,000 tons of finished steel. EVACUATION IN BRITAIN. LONDON, November 13. In a letter to the chairman of the women’s voluntary, services for civil defence, the Minister for Health (Mr Walter Elliot) said: “We shall in a day or two’ have completed, I trust, the transfer of school children, mothers, children under school age, expectant mothers and other women from the thicklypopulated areas to relatively safer pails of the country. . ; r ;7 ]
The Minister expressed the Government’s thanks and- appreciation for the invaluable help given by the women’s voluntary services in his gigantic move-: ment.-r-British Official Wireless,-
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 30, 15 November 1939, Page 5
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