BOTTLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 141, 17 June 1938, Page 6

BOTTLES.

• There are many strange trades in England, f but one of the stranjrest concerns is a firm 5 which niiikes a flourishing business of eolleetinjr et rayed milk bottles and churiw and . returning thtMn to their real owner*. It has 'iraiM'liew and inspector* all over Britain, but t its bijrjrent job is in the London area. The 1 fijniretf for last year are truly surprising. The t• >1 :iI number of bottles recovered from dailies I voluntarily returnin r what did not helonjj to • them, or else collcctwl by inspectors from (liiiiics wbich \vci'.> found to be u«=injr other 1 Lotties tban their own. exceoilod the |iliouoI mi'iial number of l.'i.OlHl.lMtO. Huttleu eollecte.l ■ in tile I>>ii<loii area nliilii' uuiiilhtihl seven : million*, half thi< total of lmttliv lost, stolen i or pitrayod, beinjr reeowred from the dairies. ' The other half found in dustbin*, pirked ' up from tlio |,aveiueiits. parks ami fields. Last • year a million lmltie* were left about liy a ' careless public Otio wonders at the fronius •' wlio first looked ;it an empty bottle and saw prosperity in it.