AUSTRALIAN IRON ORE

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29872, 12 July 1962, Page 11

AUSTRALIAN IRON ORE

Japanese Show Interest

' (NZ.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) PERTH, July 10. Western Australia’s principal iron ore deposits held ore of grades suitable for use in the Japanese steel industry, a Japanese official has reported. The leader of a Japanese mission, Mr Mitsuo Kagawa, told the Western Australian mines Minister (Mr Griffin) that Western Australian deposits were comparable with deposits in other parts of the world from which Japan drew supplies. Mr Kagawa has led his team in a month-long inspection of deposits from the Kimberley area to Yilgarn, east of Perth. He will report to the 10 integrated steel mills of Japan. The mission left Perth last night to visit Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra before returning to Tokyo.

; Rangitiki For Breakers (NZ PA.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. July 9. The 16.984-ton liner Rangitiki docked at Southampton today from New Zealand on her last voyage before going to a breaker's yard. The 33-year-old ship disembarked 324 passengers and one stowaway, a British seaman who said he had missed the sailing of his own ship, the Cumberland, in Wellington. The Rangitiki was the largest motor-ship in the world when she was built on the Clyde in 1929. In her 33 years' service she travelled more than two million miles, and carried more than one million tons of cargo and 60.000 passengers for the New Zealand Shipping Company The Rangitiki had a narrow escape in 1940 when the German pocket battleship, Admiral Scheer, attacked a convoy of 38 ships, escorted only by an armed I merchant cruiser.