MORE SALVAGE IN BRITAIN
Rugby, May 15. Salvage totals continue to soar in s Britain, and munition making is benee fiting accordingly. During the first f three months, the official collection of paper amounted to 67,663 tons and in the same period this year the tonnage has risen to 120,460. The metal figures for the same period rose from 56,227 tons in 1941 to 61,339 tons this year. Kitchen waste increased from 291,840 tons to 632,420 I tons in 1942, enabling 77,000 extra pigs 5 ' to be fed this year. 's' By contrast, the collection of bones >f dropped from 2723 tons in 1941 to 2071 y tons for 1942,—8.0.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 114, 18 May 1942, Page 5
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