CORRUGETTE.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16815, 5 June 1926, Page 8

CORRUGETTE.

NEW LOCAL INDUSTRY. GREAT INTEREST EVINCED. The waste of empty petrol tins in this country has long been a matter for regret. In the end people have become so accustomed to regarding the empty tins as valueless that the value of the material being sacrificed has been rather lost sight of. Tinned steel plate is by no means cheap, and it is probable that the cost of the benzine container exceeds that of the benzine itself. This means that when one buys a case of benzine half of the price is represented by the box and the tins. These have been wasted in millions. There has been a use for a limited number of tins for some time past for containers for different substances manufactured or handled in this country, hut only a tiny fraction of the whole output of benzine tins is dealt with in this way. The patent of Mr Roy Grccnsladc, who lias devised a method ol converting these tins into corrugated sheeting, is consequently a matter of interest. An ingenious machine reduces the tin by one operation into a sheet. A second machine flattens and trims Lhe sheet, and a third corrugates it. In the result a corrugated iron sheet is produced, which is offered to the public at a price considerably lower than the cost of the sheet steel employed in making tbe benzine container. For all purposes where corrugated iron is now employed these sheets offer a perfectly satisfactory substitute at less than half the cost. They are particularly adapted for fencing, and for lhe construction of the lighter type of buildings such as sheds, motor garages, shelters of all kinds on forms, and so forth. The convenient and economical size of the. sheet and the convenient shape, weight and size of the parcel in which it is packed arc not the least of its recommendations. There is a corrugottc slall at the Waikato Winter Show, a garage constructed of the malcrial being amongst the exhibits. The garage if of a standard type, built in sections, bolted together. It can he purchased ready made, carted in sections to Lhe site where it is required, and then erected in a few minutes. It can be taken down with equal case and removed lo any new site. Foe I tie purpose of tiic erection of summer shacks tliis material is particularly suitable. The opportunity of purchasing shacks ready made in sections whicli can be put 'together on the site by any amateur without difficulty, must appeal strongly to (be public, particularly as the price at whicli I lie building is offered defies competition. Thu material lias recommended itself to the Government and the Public Works Department has purchased 20,000 sheets for use in its camps. Also several cook houses constructed from it are. in use by the Waikato Electric Power Supply in its camp. A fence constructed of eorrugette may be seen adjoining Mr Grcensiadc’s engineering shop in Collingwood Street. Any doubt as to the pleasing appearance and quality of tiic material will be set at rest immediately by an inspection of this fence.