The Archive · 1937

Circulation

Ir is not often that I adventure into the realms of Heavy Industry (writes Dr. Archibald Grubb, Lift. DI, but the development of the scrap iron industry is interesting.

Australia has for some time been selling her scrap iron to Japan.

Japan is now unloading it on Ching.

China may yet profit by collecting 1t, selling it to Russia, and thus creating a new avenue ior Chinese trade, Russia may then unload stocks on Japan.

"Thus modern civilisation develops.a theory of the Circulation of Scrap Iron to show how far we have progressed since Harvey discovered the circulation of the blood!—Peter Persnurkus in the Sydney "Sun".

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