GREENSTONE FROM ROCKERY
Five Tons Sent To
Factory
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, October 8.
Five tons of greenstone—the largest known supply left in New Zealand—has arrived in Auckland. It has been part of a garden rockery at Eastbourne, Wellington, for the last 45 years. “I don’t think there would be more than two tons of rough greenstone scattered around the country,” said Mr R. A- Beazley, the owner of the factory which has bought the greenstone for the manufacture of ornaments.
The greenstone was collected by Mr Charles B. Kline, who was born in Hokitika in 1866, the son of a German immigrant. He arranged the export of greenstone to Germany before the First World War. The export of raw greenstone is now prohibited. Mr Kline accumulated more than 100 boulders of greenstone in his Eastbourne home up until 1914. Since then the boulders have been used as a rockery.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29021, 9 October 1959, Page 12
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