ONEKAKA IRON WORKS
MINISTER’S STATEMENT. [per press association.] WELLINGTON, March 18. The ironworks at Onekaka are to be reopened by the Government. Another site, however, may be chosen for the plant for the conversion of steel and scrap metal. The scrap mill scheme had no relation to Onekaka, said Mr. Sullivan when interviewed to-day. Plans had to be made for the reconditioning of the plant at Onekaka for the production of pig iron. Machinery ordered for the conversion of scrap steel would give an annual production of 10,000 tons of steel. “I am not able to say, at the moment, where the plant for the conversion of steel scrap will go,” Mr. Sullivan said, “but it will be incorporated in the major iron and steel industry scheme, when we go on with that scheme. In the meantime, it will be established at the point most useful to the Dominion. The rolling plant and the furnace will be shifted, later, to the site of the major scheme, for which the Government has provided fin-, ancial authority, if this is gone on with.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 March 1941, Page 5
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