SALVAGE

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23800, 20 November 1942, Page 6

SALVAGE

Sir,—The Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister of Supply, in his broadcast address last evening very rightly stressed the importance of the salvage of waste material—rubber, scrap metal, and paper—and went so far as to say that the battles of to-morrow will be won with the salvage of to-day. In the middle of Cathedral square there is a large covered-in receptacle for waste paper which at the present time is just about a quarter full. Attached to it on the north side is a good sized open box almost completely full. Furthermore, a large sign a little further north appears to direct the public to place its waste paper in this open box. It only needs a heavy shower of rain and the whole of this paper in the open box would be ruined. Surely some better arrangement than this could be made. It is small encouragement to people to save their waste material and carry it into town to assist the war effort to know that it may be spoilt in this way.—Yours, etc., GEORGE INGRAM. November 16, 1942. [This letter was referred to the chairman of the Canterbury Reclamation Board (Mr John Stewart), who made the following comment: “Our thanks to your correspondent for drawing attention to an ambiguity. The ‘box’ in the notice refers to the covered box; the open receptacle is intended for bottles and carried a big placard: ‘This bin is for bottles only’, which Was recently demolished by vandals. It will shortly be replaced and at the same time an opportunity will be taken of making the notices a little clearer.”]