PROCESSING OF BAUXITE
Australian Interest Welcomed
The news that Mr H. Evans, a geologist who discovered the world’s biggest bauxite field in north Australia, was coming to New Zealand to explore the Dusky Sound region was welcomed yesterday by Mr M. A. Connelly, M.P. for Riccarton, who has been prominent in advocating the establishment in the South Island of electro-chemical industries which can use electric power as a raw material. Mr Connelly said Mr Evans’s visit seemed to be the first result of the intimation the Minister of Works and State Electricity (Mr Watt) gave a Christchurch deputation. The Minister was reported by the deputation to have seemed favourably disposed to considering permission for suitable major industries to generate their own electric power. Bauxite is the main ingredient in producing aluminium; and it has been proposed by the Chemical Engineering Department of Canterbury University and by Mr Connelly in the House of Representatives. that bauxite could be brought to the South Island from Brisbane and processed by an industry generating its own power.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28835, 4 March 1959, Page 16
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