ONEKAKA IRONWORKS

Grey River Argus, 19 March 1941, Page 9

ONEKAKA IRONWORKS

The Re-opening MILL SITE MAY BE CHANGED. [Per Press Association! WELLINGTON, March ISThe ironworks at Onekaka are to be re-opened by the Government., Another site, however, may be chosen for the plant lo r the conversion of steel and scrap metal. The scrap mill scheme had no relation to Onekaka, said Hon. D. G. 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 ten thousand tons of steel. “I am not able to say. at the moment, where the plant fop 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 already provided financial authority, if this is gone on with.”