VALUABLE RUBBISH

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2313, 4 December 1925, Page 9

VALUABLE RUBBISH

SOME INTERESTING FINDS. CHILD IN RAGS BUNDLE. Some very interesting “finds" from London dustbins are brought to light week by week. Among the old tins brass, copper and other metal, ail oi which are of extreme value, have been discovered, silver teaspoons and purses, containing money, and season tickets, besides many Treasury notes. Other things thrown away by mistake are gold and diamond rings an. even a whole case of jewellery has been reported as part of the contents of one bin. Perhaps the most startling find of all was when a dustman thought he had discovered a bundle of rags to sell as “tots”, and when he opened it what should he see but a little child. When loads arrive at the destfuc*or —a construction composed of 12 or 14 great fires, each as big as an ordinary kitchen range, with a huge chimney belching forth black smoke night and day—the dustmen rake over the refuse to see that nothing o fany value is burned. But to bo able to find a 6in. blue and white vase or silver saltspoon in 20, 40, or 60 tons of rubbish is almost an impossibility. Still mere difficult is it to find a wedding ring, especially when one considers that on an average there arc about 3200 bins of refuse in every 40 tons collected. Much of the refuse which cannot be disposed of in any other way is sent by rail to farms there to be used to assist the growth of vegetables.