“ECONOMY MACHINE”
GERMAN’S BRIGHT INVENTION BERLIN, August 28. German ingenuity has invented an automatic machine, designed to effect the sort of economy that kept the country alive in war time. It is a , large contrivance, of which 60 replicas have been erected in various parts of. the city.Housewives place potato peelings in it, turn a handle, and receive a supply of cut wood in exchange. Women using the machine regularly earn a share in a State lottery ticket. It is hoped that 225,000 tons of peelings will be saved every year, for use as cheap fodder for pigs and cows.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21432, 5 September 1931, Page 12
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