WEALTH IN WAR DUMPS.
RECOVERY OF METALS. £400,000 REALISED. A. *nd N.Z. LONDON. Nov. 8. Sir John Mann, who was Controller of Munitions Contracts in the Ministry of Munitions from 1917 to 1919, states that as the- result of a discovery by. a young engineer, Mr. F. Pickett, of a method of utilising metal from ammunition dumps after the war, metal extracted from 600,000 tons of French, British, and German ammunition fetched £400,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18244, 10 November 1922, Page 9
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73WEALTH IN WAR DUMPS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18244, 10 November 1922, Page 9
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