SCRAP METAL

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 44, 21 February 1942, Page 4

SCRAP METAL

COLLECTION BY WOMEN

467 TONS FROM FARMS

(0.C.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. The country women of Canterbury, driving horses in drays and carts, have collected 467 tons of scrap metal from farms for the Canterbury Reclamation Board since the day after Japan entered the war. This enormous weight of metal was conveyed to the depot in Christchurch by railway trucks from the centres of the Women's Division of the Farmers' Union and the women's institutes throughout Canterbury. During the same period 22 tons of scrap metal of various kinds was collected in the city, and from the combined stocks at the depots 161 tons has already been sold to foundries to be made into essential war materials. Besides the sales much of the metal has been disposed of free of charge to the Home Guard to supply guardsmen with essential equipment.

The result of this energetic activity by women throughout the province is that Canterbury now leads the Dominion in the waste metal drive.

| Details of the financial position in [the various centres for the current period supplied by the National Council were given by Mr. John Stewart, chairman of the organising committee of the Canterbury Reclamation Board and secretary of the' board. Out of a total of £7171 9/11 raised in the various centres, the sum of £2682 9/7 has been raised I? C , a , l ? t ?, rbury - This is £60 more than j-'f-Y 1 elhngton figure and more than -.1000 above the Auckland, and £2000 above the Dunedin figures.