A FLOURISHING TRADE
PARISIAN SCAVENGERS CIGARETTE AND CIGAR ENDS (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.. (Received August 14, 11 a.m.) PARIS, August 13. Picking up cigarette and cigar ends is such a flourishing trade that a trad' union of .scavengers is being formed with a view to organising the industry, and adopting gueh reform us a maxi mum of eight hours a day. ■ Owing to the intense tourist traffic the industry is now in a state oi chaos. Cafes frequented by visitors are crowded with tobacco scavengers who pounce on discarded cigarettes and cigars. Fights between pickcrs-up are of quite common occurrence. Vendors of second-hand tobacco art alleged to make between £3 and £i a month. After filling their pockets they go home and sort the ends, according to quality, selling t-ach pile when it amounts to a pound in weight. Apart from the big cafes where American tourists congregate, the Bourse, where excited speculators frenziedlylight"cigarette after cigarette and throw them away, is the scavengers' best hunting ground.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17029, 14 August 1929, Page 7
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167A FLOURISHING TRADE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17029, 14 August 1929, Page 7
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