Briquettes To Go
(From Our Own Reporter) WESTPORT, April 22. The briquette plant at Ngakawau is to cease production.
The plant, which was estimated to cost about $150,000, at no stage prospered after being established in February 1965. x
First there were protests at the smoke nuisance from the big chimneys by residents in the Hector-Ngakawau townships. The briquettes themselves were then considered inferior; in spite of improvements they never caught on. Finally a protest by the Clean Air Society in Christchurch at the use of such fuel seemed to have the most adverse effect on sales. The Mines Department brought advisers from overseas to endeavour to produce a better article, apparently with little result. Only two men had been employed at the plant lately.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31661, 23 April 1968, Page 1
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