MANUFACTURE OF SALT.
I'ro tne Editor.) Sir, —In the issue of the "Star" of the 6th instant I read a report about the manufacture of salt at Raiigitoto. Being interested in this subject, and having been one of the employees at the Rangitoto salt works (after 15 years experience in the manufacture an lingland), may I be permitted to point out that the salt manufactured at Kangitoto was not procured by the evaporation of sea water alone, but by the use also of a raw material imported from Edithburg. The works, therefore, were more on the lines of a salt refinery. Should a substitute for the above-men-tioned raw material, such as rock-salt, be procurable, it would be an easy matter for one works to supply the whole of the Dominion and more at a reasonable price, otherwise 1 am of opinion that the cost of manufacture from sea water alone would be too great to compete with manufacturers using raw materials.— am. etc., S. SALE.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 149, 24 June 1918, Page 7
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