MORE BOTTLE DRIVES

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32213, 4 February 1970, Page 1

MORE BOTTLE DRIVES

At least three organisations in Christchurch will hold bottle drives on the next few Saturdays to collect the vast quantity of bottles—estimated at four million —not collected by the Christchurch J a y c e e last Saturday. The Jaycee, which canvassed only a fifth of the Christchurch area, collected about a million bottles, worth about $lO,OOO, and considered another four million could have been obtained had the whole city been “worked.” Under arrangement' with the Jaycee, the Scout Association will hold bottle drives on Saturday, and on the two succeeding Saturdays, especially to collect all those

bottles left behind in the Jaycee drive. Seventy-three scout groups, each organising its own drive, will take part, according to the field commissioner for the Canterbury scout area (Mr R. P. Kingston). Proceeds from these drives will go towards scout training and building programmes. “We expect to collect two million bottles,” Mr Kingston said. “We are very pleased to hand over to the scouts,” said Mr M. W. Burbery, who organised the Jaycee bottle drive, yesterday. “To have such an organisation working and finishing off, as it were, keeps faith with the public.” Mr Burbery said that dozens of people had telephoned him with offers to pick up a quantity of 750 bottles on an elderly woman’s

front lawn, after publicity about the case in “The Press.” He thought these bottles had now been collected, he said. Two other organisations which have advertised their intention of holding bottle drives are the Technical Association Football Club and a committee promoting the Woolston School assembly hall fund. “We will gladly collect any bottles missed from the Jaycee drive in the Woolston and surrounding areas,” the latter has said, while the football club is also prepared to collect bottles "surplus to last Saturday’s drive.” Commercial bottle dealers are reported to have been busy this week, purchasing quantities offered to them by persons whose bottles were not collected last Saturday.