SOUVENIRS FROM SUBMARINE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13773, 16 October 1942, Page 3

SOUVENIRS FROM SUBMARINE

A craze for copper signet rings has started in Sydney through the exhibition of the Japanese submarines. Sydney jewellers have had their ingenuity tested in the last few weeks in fashioning these rings from pieces of copper piping which are being sold like hot cakes for one or two shillings. There has also been a sudden craze for brooches made from bits and pieces of submarines.

“Purchasers of souvenirs make their choice very carefully.’’ reports Mrs. C. J. Pope, president of the Naval War Auixiliary, who, with nearly 100 members of the Auxiliary, have been running the exhibition at Benelong Park. ‘“They decide before they buy of what use their choice will be. Many bits of the conning tower will see unusual uses in Sydney homes, as candlesticks, lampholders, and bookends,” she says. Almost £ 5000 has been collected at the exhibition, mainly through the generosity of souvenir hunters. Recently a young man chose a sou-

venir marked £l, and gave a £ 5 note to the fund, without taking any change. A young soldier took a Gd piece of metal for which he paid £ 1.