CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.
WASTAGE. (To the Editor.) We are all -wanting to save the nation's foodstuff, plus capital, bat do we? Let us start at the back door. To save our foodstuff and capital we must kill rats. Now some months ago we had -what was called a "Bat Week." I wonder 'how many people really did take it seriously. I collected my packet of poison from the council, but I think the rats up my way have passed a secondary education and read, the instructions on the packet, as it was left untouched. But I did not stop at that, I bought a rat trap, and the result to date is 16 rats. Getting , away from rats, we have capital daily going , up in smoke. Visiting one of tne American passenger boats trading ito New Zealand, I found -one of the stewards buey removing the tinfoil from the paper of discarded cigarette packets, and when I inquired ■why, he informed me that the trip ■previous Jie had collected fourteen pounds, which was eold in Sydney at two or four shillings a pound. I am not certain on that point. Now we come to the waste of paper. We see it carried flway in cartloads every day to be destroyed. Looking for information, I would like to know if our daily newspapers, if saved, would be of any use to th« paper mills. A. LARSEN.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 154, 1 July 1940, Page 6
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