ABOUT MATCHES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 892, 11 April 1907, Page 22

ABOUT MATCHES.

It is estimated by a statistical authority that the United Kingdom alone manages to consume 500,000,000 matches a day, which comes out ,at about 12 for every man, woman, and child, smokers probably account for the greater number ,so that they will be interested to know that about 90 tons of wood are used up in the form of matches 'every day, or about 30,000 tons a year. If one day’s > consumption of matches were p aced end to end they would extend for a distance of about; 15,000 miles. Sweden and 'Norway, where matches are made in enormous quantities, export

over 25,000 tons of wooden matches every year. In France, where the tax i,on matches averages fourpence an inhabitant, the consumption is comparatively small.