“WAR NOT IMMINENT”
METAL PRICES TOO LOW SYDNEY. December 24. “The relatively low price of tin and other metals gives the lie to reports that war is imminent,” said. Mr. G. H.. Blackmore, chairman of Takuapa Valley Tin Dredging, N.L., who returned from the East by the Marella yesteiday. i “If war were really as close, as some people would have us believe, Lin would be about £lOO a ton d'eai1 er.” he said. , Mr. Blackmore said that there were now thousands of bicycles in the Ma'av Slates, all of Japanese manufacture/ They were well built, and the best type cost about £3 (Australian), while others were obtainable at 18/4. Mr. Blakemore inspected many tin mining properties, and saw the largest dredge in the East, at Ipoh. This 'had a capacity of 400.000 cubic yards a month.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 January 1938, Page 9
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