Long Planning For Steel Industry

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30804, 16 July 1965, Page 3

Long Planning For Steel Industry

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 15. Months of detailed planning for the New Zealand Iron and Steel industry await Mr A. R. Parish, project manager for the new industry.

Mr Parish, of McLellan and Partners and W. S. Atkins and Partners, consultants to the New Zealand Steel Company, arrived in Auckland from England this week. Accompanied by the chairman of the Steel Company (Sir Woolf Fisher) and by the mining and development manager to the company (Mr J. W. Ridley), he visited the mill site for the industry at Glenbrook, four miles north of Waiuku, for the first time today. Later Mr Parish said: "It’s a wonderful site. I’m most impressed with what I have seen.” Mr Parish said apart from the site’s proximity to the necessary raw materials, it

was excellent in having towns close enough to house workers on the project. Much design work had to be done before the work went out to tender, he said. Before tenders could be invited for the site work, expected to begin toward the end of the year, 1.. e final details of the plant layout had to be settled. This stage might be reached in about two months. Mr Parish is convinced of the viability of the industry proposed in New Zealand. “Works of this size are perfectly practicable, particularly with the technological developments that have taken place in the last five or 10 years,” he said.