MR. SULLIVAN'S TOUR
OREPUKI SHALE WORKS
REOPENING ADVOCATED
(By Telegraph-*-Press .Association.) - INVERCARGILL, .This Day.
The Minister .of Railways (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) spent a busy day yesterday. In the morning he heard deputations at Invercargill and Bluff, and later he made a tour of inspection of railway /lines in the western district. He returned to Invercargill at 8.30 last night and met more deputations, after which he attended a- social function. Today Mr. Sullivan is visiting other parts of Southland and he will go to Te Anau for the weekend. A request for a "fair and square" investigation into the resources of the Orepuki shale works was made to the Minister by representatives of the Orepuki Progess League. The works have been closed for thirty years and from time to time reports have been obtained, but according to the deputation these reports have not been satisfactory. One speaker claimed that it was estimated that there , was about 1,000,000 tons of shale available for treatment, The Minister in reply said that the Departments ,of Mines and Industries and Commerce would try to estimate whether the reopening of the works would be an economic proposition or not.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 8
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