BARRAGE BALLOONS
COVERS FOR TANKS FOR OVERSEAS SERVICE The straw in the thousands of palliasses on which the British Army sleeps is now regularly turned into paper as fresh straw., takes its place. In the old days the straw would just, be burned. To-day it is laid- out to air thoroughly, then packed up in bales and sent off to the paper mills. Jute from tattered sand-bags goes on from the Army salvage depots to the paper-makers. There is not much that the depots do not collect. Every week one of them alone handles 500 tons of iron, steel, aluminium and tin. It sorts out empty bottles and sends them back to the brewers, the distillers and the wine merchants. Thousands of old batteries are returned to the makers that the carbon may be reclaimed.
Old barrage balloons become strips of rubber sheeting made into watertight covers fo&, tanks shipped overseas. Cotton reels sent in by the Women’s Voluntary Services and the Girl Guides are used by the Royal Engineers for cable rests in laying temporary telephone and telegraph lines. More than 15,000 of them have
come along. Last year this one depot collected' 859 tons of Army paper for salvageand sold it at £5 a ton; in all, the Army got £lOO,OOO for its salvage in a year and passed the money on to war funds.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3151, 31 July 1942, Page 6
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