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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 16, 13 October 1927, Page 9

Convulsions that shook the isthmus many years ago piled up potential gravel heaps that to-day dot the landscape with green knolls, Auckland’s proudest heritage from Nature, and the feeling is that the time has now arrived when definite steps should bo taken to protect the volcanic hills of Auckland from final demolition (states the. "Star”). Over sixty volcanic upthrusts are within easy reaching distance of the city. At a City Council meeting Mr. F. \V. Urinsden, chairman of the Parks Committee, will move a resolution that tho city invito representatives of the other local bodies in the metropolitan area to confer with it in order io take tho necessary action to preserve the volcanic cones in their natural slate. Mr. Brinsden considers that all I'e ccr.es should be vested in a committee, representative of the local bodies concerned, and their control should be on the lines of a national park. The Government he regards as the worst offender in the work of destruction, and its sympathy should be enlisted in the cause of Auckland beautiful.

News that permission has been given for a New Zealand company to work silica deposits in the Mount Somers region, Canterbury, has roused interest among English glass manufacturers (says the "Times”). It is announced that a full plant is expected to be operating by the end of the year. A member of tho Glass Manufacturers’ Association said it was unlikely the British market would bo affected by (ho new enterprise. There wore excellent silica deposits in France. Belgium, and Germany, and the cost of transhipping them to England was small. However pure the deposits in New Zealand might be, it was prob'd >lo that the extra freight charges would kill trade with Great Britain.