TE AROHA WATERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18496, 5 September 1923, Page 11

TE AROHA WATERS.

THEIR SPECIAL QUALITIES.

OPENING FOR EXPORT TRADE.

[Br telegraph. —own cop.REspoNnEJnj ) TE AROHA. Tuesday.

A recent Australian Trades Gazette states that the annual importation of German mineral waters before the war was 200,000 dozen bottles, valued at a ■wholesale price at £30.000. These waters came from Appollinai'is Springs, Rhineland,; and as Australia is about to admit them again, Germany will not bo slow with her consignments. A To Aroha resident claims that, tho whole of these wafers . could bo supplied from 1 e Aroha by the Government. The New Zealand Government Geologist .has stated that Te Aroha has a larger-• supply than the Rhineland,. and possesses tho equivalent of . Appollinaris. _ . Dr. Herbert, Balrieolofjist to tho New Zealand''.'Government, in'his latest book on New Zealand waters, states tho 1© Aroha mineral: waters have many uoints in common with those, of the Old .World, such as Vichy, Ems Vals, and; R'oyafc, and in .many respects they surpass the most celebrated alkaline waters of * Europe ■

The characteristic, of Te Aroha waters is their 'richness in magnesium -salts; richer in this respect than any 'other springs vet discovered. There is no ' doubt a good market in Australia for , thesA •waters, as the import duty has been reduced to about 15 per cent., and cost of manufacture • and machinery • in • connection with the waters is about 40 per cent, less .than it was in war time."