Industrial Research
Sir, —Your appeal for more industrial research to be tuned to New Zealand’s industrial development needs immediate consideration. It would certainly be good for the West Coast if a coal research unit could be set up there and staffed by technologists living and working in the district. Mr E. B. Mackenzie (general manager, N.Z.E.D.) recently stated that our coal reserves were very valuable and should be conserved for processes which no other material is suitable for, such as reducing ore to parent metals. Presumably this thinking is partly why coal is not to be used at the New Plymouth power station. The setting up of a West Coast coal research centre would help to compensate the Buller district for its loss of the coal contract for North Island power generation. Yours, etc.,
PATRICK NEARY. June 2, 1970.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32313, 3 June 1970, Page 16
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