GOLD FROM TIN.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14044, 29 April 1920, Page 3

GOLD FROM TIN.

Fortunes are being made quickly by *neculative middlemen in the Welsh tin--plate trade. Prices were forced _up at Swansea to 70s a box compared with 12s 6d -a box pre-war and 33s when under control. The trade never enjoyed such recq'rd prosperity, and though makers are all fairlv well hooked at prices below all fairly well booked at prices below to-day's figures they, too, are making fortunes quiok|.y. The demand for tin-plates knows* no bounds, and middlemen are, freely selling to foreigners at 90s a box with practically no risks, as no American plates are on offer. . I'm such a gentle little prude, I think that laughter loud is rude. No lady smokes * ci-'arette! And games are had when people bet. • I always .go to church on time — To stay at home would be a crime. , I've never tasted wine or beer, Or anything that makes one queer. I'm passing faiiv-with eye's of gray — I do not dance, nor flirt, nor, play* * Unseemly jazz tunes. • Hymns are'best \ With all the virtues..am' I - blasts .• . 4 Afperfect VifS I" ihink I'd be; ' * 3?et no one seems to marry me! —Life.