Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 06 September 1941

Salvage Campaign.

During the next two weeks the public of Mexborough are asked to make a determined effort to find and put out the maximum amount of salvage (paper, bones, glass bottles and jars, metal, tins and food waste) possible.

As in the War Weapons Week there is an enormous amount of local rivalry, and this is being encouraged by the Sanitary Inspector, Mr. H. Brearley, who is organising the campaign. Mexborough people are asked particularly to give up old books, pamphlets and music which they are keeping probably for only sentimental reasons. Unless they do this, besides hindering the war effort, they are paving the way for paper famine.

During the campaign, members of Mexborough Urban Council are visiting the schools in the area and making appeals to the children, and the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides have promised to canvass each house in Mexborough in the evenings. Two shops in High Street are to have window displays and part of a German aeroplane shot down recently over this country will probably be exhibited in the town. A set of equipment has been promised by the Army authorities and also a German parachute flare. People with confidential papers should get in direct touch with the Sanitary Inspector if they wish these to be taken direct to the paper mills.