MUST BE SAVED

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3153, 5 August 1942, Page 4

MUST BE SAVED

SALVAGE OF RUBBER APPEAL BY THE MAYOR EVERY SCRAP IS NOW WANTED An appeal to all to save every scrap of rubber possible was made by the Mayor, Mr Edwin Edwards, at the monthly meeting of the Paeroa District Patriotic Committee on Monday night.

The National Council for Reclamation of Waste Material, in ashing that every step possible be*taken to ensure that all old rubber be salvaged, wrote to the meeting as follows: “The Department of Supply has now notified the council that the salvaging of motor tyres and tubes is being undertaken by the New Zealand Retail Motor Trades’ Association and this body will interest itself also in the collection of other waste scrap rubber, where it might be readily available when tyres and tubes are being collected. Other Classes of Rubber Goods “The Waste Council, with the assistance and co-operation of its affiliated boards and committees has been requested to arrange for the salvaging of the undermentioned classes of rubber: Crepe soled shoes, cycle tyres and tubes (leave in valves), milking inflations, retread cuttings, hot water bottles (leave in shoes, gum boots, goloshes, rubber stoppers), rubber gloves, rubber tubing and garden hose, bathing caps, rubber mats, football bladders, rubber preserving jar rings and anything else made of rubber.

“It is finally hardly necessary for the council to stress the urgent importance of salvaging and reclaiming every ounce of old rubber in view of the fact that the purchase of raw rubber for essential war and Civilian needs is now impossible from any source overseas.

Indications of Re-sale Value's

“An extract from a circular re cently issued by the Canterbury Reclamation Board is quoted for gene ral information.

“Absolute finality regarding prices has not yet been reached, but a temporary local arrangement has been made which is in every way satisfactory. The rubber companies will pay prices ranging from £3O per ton for the finest grades down to £4 per ton. Since the announcement in this respect was made in the newspapers further progress has been made and we are now in a position to announce that all classes of rubber goods can be collected. The items that will bring the highest price are crepe rubber shoe soles (£3lo' per ton?, cycle inner tubes and milking machine inflations (£l5 per ton), rubber gloves, hot water bags, football bladders, rubber tubing and bathing caps (£lo' per ton). Discarded bicycle tyres, gum boots, goloshers, rubber mats and old garden hose can also be used, but the price to be paid for them will be in the lower grades.