CONSERVATION OF WASTE

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23085, 30 July 1940, Page 8

CONSERVATION OF WASTE

♦ SCRAP TOOL STEEL FOR UNITED KINGDOM INVESTIGATION OF QUANTITY AVAILABLE An investigation into the amount of scrap tool steel available in Christchurch for export to the United Kingdom is being made by the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association, The decision to make the investigation followed receipt of a letter, through the Manufacturers’ Federation, from the Factory Controller (Mr G. A. Pascoe). In his letter, Mr Pascoe said he had been informed there was a probable market in the United Kingdom for scrap tool steels of the high speed and carbon varieties. It would be understood, Mr Pascoe said, that there were many tools, such as drills, reamers, and lathes which reached the stage when they were no longer of use for the purpose for which they were obtained. “I feel that if an appeal were made to all those using such tools, having yields of a certain amount of scrap of no further value, to save them and be prepared to hand them over to a central depot from where the Government would arrange to ship them to the United Kingdom, a good response would be met.” Generally, the letter continued, individual yields would be small, but in the aggregate reasonable tonnages over a period should be available.