TARANAKI’S IRON SANDS

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25448, 20 March 1948, Page 2

TARANAKI’S IRON SANDS

GOVERNMENT METALLURGIST MAY MAKE TESTS

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 19. It was announced from London this week that tests will probably be made on the Taranaki iron sands by Mr Tudor Young, formerly of Dunedin, who is returning to New Zealand to take up an appointment as metallurgist at the Dominion Physical Laboratory. It is understood that Mr Yotmg is at present gathering information in Britain on methods of obtaining iron from iron sands.

A spokesman of the Department of Scienitic and Industrial Research said to-day that Mr Young’s appointment was not connected with the Taranaki sands. Mr Young had been away from New Zealand for about 25 years, and had held various positions as chief chemist and metallurgist in British and Australian companies. He was in charge of a steel smelting plant at the Hillside railway workshops, Australia, for six years. jam 1936 he returned to Britain to Wke a post with the Air Ministry, and was recently deputy-senior inspection officer for the south-western area. x Mr Young spent five years and a half in the United States, where he was for a time seconded to the British Air Commission, being in charge of the Pittsburgh office. He is aged 47, married, with two children. He holds the diploma of metallurgy, and has also been given certificates in various branches of metallurgy by the London City and Guilds arid by the University of Pittsburgh.