TINPLATE ECONOMY
The lighthearted practice of pitching empty tobacco and cigarette tins into the gutter may presently cease. In Australia, at any rate, it will, for there tin containers for many articles will soon disappear. The use of substitutes for tinplate in packing foodstuffs and many other goods is expected to result from experiments being made by manufacturers. Because tinplate is required largely for defence purposes it will become increasingly difficult to procure. Technicians employed by firms interested in packing various commodities have been trying to discover what Australian raw materials can be vised without harm to the products.
Sir Harold Gillies, the New Zealand plastic surgeon, is an artist in oils as well as a superb surgical artist. He has asked his friend Mr. Bernard Adams, the landscape and portrait painter, to start a weekly art class at the base hospital in Hampshire, where civilian and military casualties are treated for facial and other injuries. The aim is to keep patients' minds occupied during the trying intervals between several operations.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 123, 27 May 1941, Page 8
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171TINPLATE ECONOMY Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 123, 27 May 1941, Page 8
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