PEACE USES FOR TIM HATS.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15203, 16 October 1919, Page 2

PEACE USES FOR TIM HATS.

The Disposal Board of the Ministry of Munitions has acquirod a large and varied assortment —many hundreds of thousands of them, in fact—of "tin hats." -There will be three grades oi* tin hats on sale:—(I) New and complete j with leather linings; (2) second-hand, \ still very serviceable and ready to wear j ■ (3) souvenir helmets, fitted with shrapnel holes. Purchasers of Grade 3, it was explained, will include those anxious to impress on posterity "what daddy did in the great war." There are many uses to which the helmets can be put, Caxton House points out, of which the following are examples:—They'can vbe worn in mines and during strike riots They make splendid rose-bowls .and fern stands, when fit-tod with legs. They ?.re easily converted into poultry feeding troughs. lii case the homo demand should not equal the supply, the Disposal Board has been making inquiries in China ?»'ith a view to exporting the surplus tin hats, to be employed in the Celestial Empire "as feeding-bowls. A market- is. also to be sought among the natives of South Africa in this line. Among other suggested uses for the hats are that they should be treated as washbasins, dinner-gongs, and saucepans.