FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22192, 20 August 1935, Page 6

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FUTURE OF POTTERY DISCOVERY AT HELENSVILLE The discovery of large seams of clstf in the Helensville district half a cenW. ago drew attention to the possibility establishing pottery works in Auc» and was the subject of an article in New Zealand Herald of Augu st *' 1885. . , . "The rich gold discoveries which W been made in various parts of the I vince and the scarcely less wcaltn-gi coal deposits have almost total:l\ sorbed the attention of the pvibhe so M as mineral discoveries are cotlccTD , a Lt stated the article. "But there 3re .. > minerals besides those named veii culatod to provide employment, in ' portions of tlie Auckland Province tery clays of the finest quality e , A e found, from some deposits-of which finest porcelain ware could be n ' ' ra | previous occasions we have notease of these discoveries, and the other • we were shown samples taken. seams recently discovered in the n ville district. The discovery has _ made in the range of low huls o western side of the river. A large _ ■ has also been found a short di t „ 9 tural "Some day these sources of n» wealth will be turned to good a and the labour required will he px than that now snent on the go in the colony. While the 1 which these pottery clays may . j 0 f will be less attractive than the n gold and silver, they are ' l * ie, \| v more lasting and more genera . munerative."