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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13537, 7 September 1907, Page 6

In reply to a question put to him by a Star reporter at Haw era. whether he had heard anything of the New Zealand iron project in England, Mr. Cowern, who has just returned "from England, said he had heard a good deal about, it. both for and against. ' lie believed that it was very likely that a company would be floated in connection with the Cadman leases. As to the titanic irnnsand, of which there were such large deposits on the Tara.mt.ki beaches, ii' a satisfactory process could be discovered it, would be an immense thing. There would be no hick of money for dealing with it. He gave instances of how freely money and time bad been spent in America and in Sweden to get suitable iron to mix with the Cleveland iron, the product of low made ores, in order to convert it into a higher-class article. The Tarunaki iron produced from titanic sand was just what was needed. He believed that an electrical process of dealing with the raw material would yet be discovered, for the matter was of great importance, ami men of science were busily at work endeavouring to solve the problem.