British Salvage Results

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 103, 2 May 1941, Page 7

British Salvage Results

LONDON, March 10. Britain’s salvage campaign has had excellent results. British housewives have helped to save enough scrap metal to build 16,000 tanks in addition to some 250,000 tons of paper—or enough to make 40 shiploads. It is estimated that last year enough metal, paper, bones, and pig swill were salvaged to fill 100 ships, and that such shiploads would have cost the country £8,000,000. The total actual weight of salvaged material was 80,000 tons, which was sold by local councils for £2,209,000. These facts have been given by Mr. Harold G. Judd, Controller of Salvage at the Ministry of Supply. He said that while the figures were good, they were not good enough, and that Britain was not salvaging enough. He hinted that some kind of compulsion might be introduced. “We have got to regard the throwing away of material that might be used again as something approaching a crime,” he said. All manner of saving is being carried out. Over 1,000,000 torch batteries are collected weekly to recover carbon and metals: 1000 tons of bones are collected monthly to make glue, glycerine and fertilisers. Kitchen waste collected by local councils is sufficient to feed 100,000 pigs. Mr. Judd has appealed to housewives and councils to co-opiate for a. greater effort. Harriett had been to Sunday school many times, but recently she made her first visit to church during regular services. The opening prayer, it happened, was offered by a man who put his whole soul into his pica. The prayer was so earnest, in fact, that again and again from the congregation came fervent expresssion of “Amen.” Harriett nudged her mother. “What is it, doart” the mother asked. “Everybody is saying •Amen,* ” replied Harriet, “and I just wonder why the man doesn’t stop. By special arrangement Reuters world service, in addition to other special sources of information, is used in tiis compilation of oversea Intelligence published in this issue, and all rights therein In Australia and New Zealand are reserved. Such of the cable news In this Issue as is ar headed has appeared in The Time? and In sent to this paper by special per mission, it should be understood that the opinions are not those of The Times ur te£s expressly stated to he so.