FIRST ACQUAINTANCE.
The first acquaintance of the average, man with road metal was when as a small boy he, heaved a piece at the neighbour's dog from a safe distance. To-day, having acquired acumen and foresight, he looks on metal, that is bluemctal, as a profitable investment.
Salient points extracted from the reports of experts follow:—Quarry is only 600 yards from Hutt road—between Ngahauranga and Potone. Even to a layman's eye it is evident that (a) there is an enormous amouut of metal (millions of tons, in fact) waiting to be quarried, and (b) that the metal is durable and tough and dry. The technical term of the metal is Greywackc. It is the best stone available in tho North Island for ■; road purposes—(the Dominion's export is the authority for this statement). There aro very few places whore there is any bulk of first-class rock workable. Tho property of Blucmotal Ltd., contains large deposits of bluemctal of the best quality. It runs right back into a range of high hills. It could be quarried wholesale at very little cost, as there aro no building operations to hamper blasting.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 100, 24 October 1925, Page 22
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