RAG COLLECTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 77, 28 September 1942, Page 6

RAG COLLECTION

DOMINION-WIDE DRIVE BY GIRL GUIDES

Girl Guides throughout' New Zealand, with the exception of Canterbury, conducted a drive on Saturday for cleaning rags for the armed forces and met with great success. Guide officers in Wellington expressing the opinion that the collection was decidedly greater than that resulting from a similar drive some months, ago. The reason the Canterbury Girl Guides did not take part was that the collection had already been made in that district. In several places the drives are to 'be held next Saturday. 1100 AT WORK IN WELLINGTON. Mrs. W. G. Turnbull, divisional com.nissioner for Wellington, remarked on the enthusiasm of the girls, of whom there were 1100 at work in Wellington, the Hutt Valley, and Eastbourne. From 9 a.m. until late in the afternoon they were calling on householders and using all manner of conveyances, from' barrows and prams to bicycles, to carry away the rags to waiting motor-cars. The majority of the cars were-driven by Guiders and when full were taken to receiving depots, of which there were about 30 about the city and suburbs. Army trucks will call at these depots today and tomorrow and the rags will be gathered in one place for weighing and valuing. In the last collection approximately j 25 tons, valued at £ 1309. were I gathered. The money paid by the! Government for the rags goes to the i Patriotic Fund. j The rag collections are organised by the Girl Guides' Association for the j National Council of Reclamation of ] Waste Materials and bodies affiliated to it.