ARMY HARVESTING CAMPS

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24150, 8 January 1944, Page 3

ARMY HARVESTING CAMPS

MOBILISATION OF SCRAP While Army harvesting camps are established throughout Canterbury m January, February, and March, the opportunity will be taken by the Canterbury Reclamation Board to organise a large-scale collection of scrap tyres, tubes, plough-shares, and other forms of cast iron. Hun- reds of tons of discarded tractor, truck, and car tyres arc lying round on farms, and there must also be many old plough-shares rusting away. These scrap materials are urgently required by'industry. The scrap rubber is processed at Woolston and converted into reclaim rubber, which in turn is used for the manufacture of war materials, and for re-treading tyres, etc. Plough-shares and other forms of scrap metal are required by foundries and implementmanufacturers, for use in the manufacture of iron and steel goods, and will play no smgll part in maintaining the supply of agricultural machinery. Lack of transport in the past has made it difficult to mobilise these

materials and put them back into industry, but the use of Army transport and personnel will overcome this. The Army will make no charge for the service, but will not make special trips to collect scrap. Farmers are asked to collect their old tyres, tubes, ploughshares, etc., into a central dump on the farm, and to advise the Army harvesters. Military vehicles, when transporting men from farms back to the camps, will also cart .he scrap, which will later be sent through to the Canterbury Reclamation Board in Christchurch. Farmers who are not using Army harvesters are also asked to assist by taking their scrap to the nearest camp, or to a neighbouring farm on which Army personnel are working. While the main function of the scheme is, as stated above, to put scrap materials back into a useful form, where they will help the war effort and further production, the collection will also benefit patriotic funds, as all profits from the sale of scrap by the Reclamation Board are paid into the National Patriotic Fund for the credit of Canterbury’s quota.