WASTE PAPER AND ITS USES

Hutt News, Volume 15, Issue 40, 25 March 1942, Page 5

WASTE PAPER AND ITS USES

SAVE! SAVE! SAVE! v b A meeting of the Waste Material Committee was held on Thursday evening, the -Mr. H. S. Budding 1 , presiding'. Unfortunately 11 there was not a large attendance owing to the inclemcnt weather, but several apologies for lion-attend anc-e were received, and several gentlemen offered (he use of their trucks for collection purposes. V A provisional committee was set up. t: The chairman explained that it c was desirable that a steady supply V of paper should be maintained each v week to facilitate handling and storage. It is hoped to gradually v divide the district into zones with o a responsible person in charge of fi each. Until this can be accomplish- t ed the committee will concentrate r on the factories, shops and offices, v where sacks or bales will be left n and collected when full. In the g meantime householders can render a national service, by making their v. own arrangements by storing old v newspapers, books, magazines or ii any other kind of paper until ar- I rangements can be made to collect it. Further information may be V obtained from Mr. Duckling (phone P 6 3-9111) who will also make ar- 3V rangements for a truck to call if w there is a sufficient quantity. Wax- si ed, tarred or grease papers are of no value for pulping, and should not be collected. It is a matter for satisfaction that steps are being taken to arrest ri the great wastage of paper which n lias been going on for so many o: years, by a process of re-pulping. p< This process has created a new in- IV] duslry in New Zealand which it is c< hoped will prove to be of considerable economic value not only in ai war time but in peace time. 1) All paper, with the exception of U certain grades of wrapping paper 11 (Kraft) has been imported to this ti country from England America, ii Canada, the Baltic States, Japan, lc etc. Supplies from most of these e countries are of necessity cut off today or considerably reduced, and c< any economy which can be introduc- p ed to arrest this loss will be of na- ft tiojiat importance. It may not be si generally realized that, munitions r< cannot be made without paper, n Cartridges, shells, mines, radio sets s< for planes and tanks, dust covers for d engines, machine gun belts. roll n boards for army huts—all these o thing's need paper for their maim- r; facture. A ton of paper can be r; made into 1500 shell containers, in- T to 9000 shell-fuse components or t( 11,000 mine assemblies, into 71,000 fi dust covers for aero engines, or 5 Sfl.OoO targets, into IiOOO boxes for II aero-cannon shells. er