TAUPO SULPHUR DEPOSITS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20878, 10 June 1933, Page 12

TAUPO SULPHUR DEPOSITS.

♦ —- A VALUABLE INDUSTRY \ POSSIBLE. VAST QUANTITIES OBTAIN^ Hundreds and hundreds of '* barren and neglected couatiy ih 1 ated some 10 miles from Taiine considered to have vast ivkJS*'? 4 for the building up of a JJBf tant industry in New ZntoaTw , production of pure sulphur. which is situated near RotdWsV' seldom visited by tourists, cause, situated as it is in the vS*J2r area, it cannot be traversed jSS*? risk to the sightseer, nor is (S3! X anything of interest to see thar*. i»?!r - a Napier resident, Mr Percy Amffi' who recently went over the «M B an interesting report to make m tS 1 ' possibilities. He found that OtaLSf i tors had been on the arS ffigS several claims had been> stake! Barren Countryside, "I had heard of the preseqc# of vs* ' - quantities of sulphur near Tauoft k? fore," he said, "and so last we§Ms ' I set out for Taupo determined tow for myself. When I arrived at t£S I asked many questions of they would tell me nothing Eventually* however, inyTiwSSS? tions led me to Rotokawa, wheiPi ' found acres and acres of land taLi ' of sulphur, which I believe to least 40 per cent pure. The ££§s side was barren of any S stunted scrub, and I careful of my step, because in jS volcanic area you never knflwT4l2 you might steo into some vau*3S trap. Several Claims. s - 'i "Apparently I was not the oclf interested in the possibiUtieTa land, because some six claims had been staked; many acres. I found traces® had been digging andST, surface of the ground was of what looked to me 1 sulphur. I am satisfied t&t low there are millions of tonsSiSS molten sulphur. If this SVg'tamed. New Zealand would haw*£< industry of which she might wdrfs ' proud, for sulphur is a CMwaSS, demand all over the world." Mr Amner intends to make fuptte-.' enquiries regarding the claims rtSS'' at Rotokawa. , He emphasised <A# great value to the Dominion oFW& cessfully operating sulphur turing plant.. Sulphur usaT®- i quarried at White Island. b»o£. sulphur obtained was used agricultural purposes, such SBmanures. Owing to the quarrying for it at that'excigSfiiS" ' volcanic island, the industry jaJftEL proved of much commercial, A Keen b«w»h * The bulk of the sulphur iuMN£l New Zealand was imported-- etttoL from Japan or America. the sulphur was obtained in state from deep down in the Pipes were sunk down and nra*. ejected down one to force thg.ffitftSp. up the other. Such a I well be tried at Rotokawa, Amner, and, if successful, he dOJSi; see why New Zealand sulphur -jiSggt - not be put on the- market atftjpfwlr cost of that which was • wSfflMri There should also be a keM^Bjif?j ; for New Zealand Sulphur frcaa?j&fc,, - tries overseas, especially AustrqUg|f>' - "I am quite satisfied that tfraKp! level not very far from the -fflffSfit pure molten sulphur will be wS' i t Rotokawa," said Mr Amner. the . impure sulphur which, turned over with a spade hasjj&jjlp: , merical value, but it is the phur which would b6 the elurf jggwu S in the success of the added that the fields w6rc eiag®. 9 cessible, and that a good road flßpt; ■ motor-lorries 'to travel, over- <M;«' 9 formed in'three or • four