DOMINION NEWS
WASTE MATERIAL
(Per Press Association —Copyright).
WELLINGTON, July 15
The idea of reclaiming and salvaging waste materials for war purposes put before New Zealand in broadcast addresses by the Minister of Suppiy, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, lias widened a. good deal since theff, and is still widening, for there is tar more in wasteS reclamation than casual thought suggests. A national w T aste reel a ill lino n council set up under the chairmanship of Mr C*. 1 odd lias put in a fully busy fortnight planning the genera' scheme, and now a start has been made to divide up the Dominion into eleven collecting .zones. Bow much money saving can be made by waste salvage no one can say, but it is big money, to go to the patriotic fund'. Equallv as important is the recovery from waste of material for war and industry, but for the moinc-nt difficult and even impossible to obtain from overseas —copper, for example.
PEDESTRIAN AND CYCLE COLLIDE CHRISTCHURCH, July 15. Two persons were injured in a collision, between a cyclist and a pedestrian on. the Main South road near Islington on Saturday evening. Tho cyclist, Raymond Riddell, aged 15 years, of 7 AVoolston Street, Islington suffered concussion, and Valmai Stu.-gess, of Islington, who was knocked down. suffered concussion and [haemorrhage. The condition of both, is now satisfactory.
LOYAL MOTION. i WELLINGTON, July 16. The Farmers’ Union conference .unanimously passed a resolution assuring rlie King and his Ministers of unswerving loyalty of the farmers of New Zealand to Throne and Empire and pledging itself to do all in its power to assist and accelerate the war effort of the Dominion.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1940, Page 6
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