NEED FOR SALVAGE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 28 April 1942, Page 4

NEED FOR SALVAGE

BRASS FROM 11-FCTHK I-1 OUT BULBS SHORTAGE IN PROSPECT For some time the public has been encouraged—more or less spasmodically—to save the brass caps of electric light bulbs as part of necessary war salvage* Power boards and some electricians have provided containers in which these can be placed. The necessity for saving them is becoming more urgent, and a Nelson electrical retailer said this morning that the time might come when the purchase of a new bulb would be conditional on the return of the brass of the used one. Much of the good done by collecting these bulbs was undone, he said, if the brass was damaged. It was therefore preferable to send the bulb in whole and not break the glass away from the brass. These brasses, it is understood, are not melted down but are used again for the fitting of bulbs and any that are damaged become practically useless. The small price per thousand that dealers; receive for disused brasses does not allow them to pay anything to the public for them, but they are always glad to receive them and send them on to the bulb manufacturers, as they realise this is a form of salvage on which the community's supply of electric light hulhs miehl denend