WASTE ALUMINIUM

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23203, 14 December 1940, Page 12

WASTE ALUMINIUM

SALE TO MUNITIONS FIRM ij Three-quarters of a ton of aluminium 1 which had been' collected in small lots I) was sold to a firm engaged in munition | making by the Canterbury Provincial lj Board for ‘ the Reclamation of Waste il Materials yesterday morning. Accord•l ing to a report yesterday, this firm rei i quires urgently brass and copper. N ■ In the city yesterday afternoon, two a vans were employed to give publicity V to the waste metal campaign, the vans f being attended by boy scouts and members of the Boys’ Brigade. A drive I for metals, mainly brass and copper, lj and for bottles, sacks, and other sundries will be made to-day. TELEPHONE CALLS TO

EVERY RESIDENCE

1 WORK OP CITY WOMEN’S

I ORGANISATION f I An intensive system in aid of the waste metals drive has been used this I. week by women war workers, At

least 50 members of the General Service Corps and Women’s War Service I Auxiliary, having'previously apportioned sections of the telephone directory, have put telephone calls through to every residential number in Christchurch asking for co-operation in the drive to-day by boy scouts and memI- bers of the Boys’ Brigade; An emergency telephone canvass organisation has been, set up by women war workers, the telephoning of all houses in the city being the organisation’s first job,