AUSTRALIAN MINING
SIR ROBERT HORNE’S PRAISE. Sir Robert Horne paid a tribute to the Australian mining industry in a speech delivered at a dinner tendered to him by the chairman and directors of the Broken Hill Associated Smelters Pty., Ltd. “So far as the Broken Hill mines are concerned, so far as their operations go, and so far as I have been to observe them, I do not believe that in any part of the world exist properties of the kind which are carried on with greater efficiency,” said Sir Robert Horne. “I am not exaggerating when I say that from the beginning of Australia, the mines of the. country have .contributed £1,110,000,000 to its wealth, and at present the income derived from tho mining industry is not less than £25,000,000 annually. That must be recognised as a matter of first importance to Australia. ... . “I know of nothing more romantic in my 1 experience of industry than to visit the works pf the Associated Smelters Co. at Port Pine, and those of tho Electrolytic Zinc Co. at Risdon, Tasmania,” ho continued. “With tho greatest sincerity, I can say that there are no organisations in the world in which the practice 1 of metallurgy is higher;.than in those two great establishments'.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6551, 7 March 1928, Page 2
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