WASTE RUBBER
Sir—ln “The Press” this morning you publish a letter from a reader complaining about the appeal scrap rubber. He suggests that 2000 tons of waste rubber would be sufficient to meet requirements for many years, but he obviously does not know the true position. The reclamation plant has only recently received a reasonable supply of labour is now using about 10 tons of rubber a week. As additional rubber and machinery become available this quantity will be very greatly increased. Orders m hand at present include 1,250,000 pairs of rubber shoe soles for the Army, gumboots and rubber hose for general military purposes. The battery boxes that your correspondent dismisses so lightly are for military radios and will absorb more than 1,000,0001b of rubber by the end of 1943. So far from there being any slackening of effort, committees in the South Island have been asked to expedite the dispatch of tyres to the mill—Yours, etc., JOHN STEWART. Chairman, Organising Committee. February 25, 1943.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23882, 26 February 1943, Page 6
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