How To Recover Kapok

(To the Editor) “ A MEL'’ (“PIM,” 17/4/45) and her partner Tom should have known better in their efforts to debunk kapok-in-the-pod. All they required was an empty, lidless oil-drum, into which receptacle the husked pods are tossed, until the drum is, say, one-quarter full.

Then, with a corrugated, short broom handle bunged into the middle of the silky mass, twirl it speedily to and fro.

The kapok congregates around the imper tinence, and the irritating black seeds find themselves huddled in the outer darkness. Tis all a matter of centrifugal force.

I am, etc.,

Aweel.

Queensland.