USE OF SUBSTITUTES
LOCAL MANUFACTURERS Local firms had proved particularly adept in the use of substitute materials and the evolution of alternative processes, states the annual report of the Department of Industries and Commerce for 1943-44. The opinion was freely expressed that many invaluable lessons in efficiency and curtailment of waste had been learned- through sheer necessity. The realisation that the generally accepted method of procedure was not invariably the shortest or most efficient was all to the good both from a present-day and post-war point of view. n The following examples of utilisation of substitute or scrap materials are given in the report:—Ferrous metals for non-ferrous in production of plated spoons; plastic material for button-production in lieu of metal; increasing use of wood and glass for articles of domestic use; re-use of milk powder tins for production of billies, tin kettes, etc.; use of ease strappings for manufacture of bird* cages, rat traps, soap holders, etc.; utilisation of linen flax tow to some extent as a substitute tow in fibrous plaster and furniture production. :
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 156, 30 December 1944, Page 5
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175USE OF SUBSTITUTES Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 156, 30 December 1944, Page 5
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