A PROBLEM SOLVED
RUBBER BAND SUBSTITUTE NEWSPAPER RUNNER’S IDEA A youthful newspaper runner at Greymouth fias found a cheap ’but excellent substitute for the rubber bands that had previously kept his papers in a compact roll. • With his friends, who have adopted his idea, he saves the outside of used cigarette packets, which normally find their way into gutters, rubbish tins and fireplaces, and after cutting the packets into five strips crosswise, quickly ties his papers with the strips.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3153, 5 August 1942, Page 6
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79A PROBLEM SOLVED Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3153, 5 August 1942, Page 6
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