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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 172, 21 April 1928, Page 9

A PROMISING UNDERTAKING. GLASS WORKS FOR ASHBURTON. The Minister of Mines recently signed a very satisfactory lease in favour of the Southern Cross Glass Company of N.Z Ltd. for the rich silica deposits at Mt Somers. Tlie Glass Company is now firmly entrenched at Ashburton, and when we consider that this Dominion spent approximately £700,000 last year on glass, we at once perceive that the prospects of the new industry are excellent indeed. Again we might quote the splendid record of the Australian Glass Manufacturers’ Company Ltd . which showed in 1927 a net profit of £179,365. Mr. II Schnurpfeil, of Carlsbad. Szecho-Slovakia, who is a recognised authority throughout Europe on glass manufacturing, expresses the following opinion of the Ashburton Company’s activities:—“The silica sand is very suitable for making window, plate, white bottle, flint, and fine hollow glassware of ei'erv description. The buiMing and plant will be eminently suitable for the manufacture of these goods except large plate, and climatic conditions are verv favourable This enter prise, under efficient management, should be an undoubted success.” — Advt.