Waste Not Want Not
This is one of tho mottos of those ludustrLous people, the Japanese, vrflo even use the corks from empty bottles These are collected from all over the country and ground into powder m u special factory. Then an adhesive u added, and the mixture is used iu the manufacture of sandal-soles, bathroom mats, etc. Used photographic plates are made into mirrors; old hats into slippers,
handbags and belts; old iron into pock-ot-kuives; old rubber into new toys; woollen rags into blankets and shirts.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 212, 8 September 1938, Page 11
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87Waste Not Want Not Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 212, 8 September 1938, Page 11
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