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DISPLAY OF RESULTS
Preparations are in hand at the Miramar Film Studios, under the direction of Mr. G. Bridgman. for the display, largely on impressionistic lines, of some of the results achieved by the anti-waste campaign, and to suggest the very much greater results which can be obtained, given the interest and co-operation of every individual. The anti-waste exhibition, which is being organised by the Wellington Junior Chamber of Commerce, will be held in Wellington from June 11 to 21, after which it will be repeated in other centres. The central features of the display will be two giant robots, and the studio work involves poster designing and a great deal of striking photographic work illustrating collection, processing, and the vast range of products reclaimed from the scrap metals and waste paper to which the New Zealand campaign has so far been directed. The exhibition will display Army and Air Force equipment—machine-guns, shells, and engines—to the making of which waste reclamation can, and in overseas countries does, contribute greatly. Posters and examples will tell people what should be saved and what is not of value at the present time. That there is money and valuable material in so-called waste will be shown beyond argument by a facsimile of the cheque handed to the National Patriotic Fund Board last week by the Council for the Reclamation of Waste: that cheque, representing the results of nine months' collection, was for £5041 11s.
One of the larger chain store firms in Wellington is giving a bicycle to the boy or girl who collects most empty tooth-paste tubes over a given period. It is estimated that nearly 8.000,000 empty tubes, which are made of almost pure tin, one of the costliest of common industrial metals, are thrown away in New Zealand each year.
The Mid-Canterbury conference of the Farmers' Union carried unanimously without discussion a remit that the union make representations with a view to the formation of a National Government, states a Press Association telegram,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 127, 31 May 1941, Page 11
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