15 NOVEMBER 1940, Page 14

Rural Salvage The farce of country salvage schemes goes on.

Collections of paper are made once in two or three months, if at all; collections of small scrap iron and glass only when appeal upon appeal has been made; bones lie mouldering in heaps. Nor does larger scrap get better attention. Here an engine of over a ton has waited for six months to be picked up; on a neighbouring farm are quantities of disused agricultural machinery that will, apparently, never be fetched. The result? Scrap ceases to be saved or delivered to the depots. The inference? That scrap collections are not, in rural areas at least, a workable proposition. The remedy? To abandon the rural part of the scheme with good grace, thus saving many rural authorities, already hard worked, a great deal of trouble.