THE NEW GOVERNMENT LIME KILN, NEAR PALMERSTON. The fciln is a small one, of sor 6 tons day capacity, and is very substantially built with shaped fire bricks, •well backed up with red brick and stone work. A Root's Blower supplies it with a forced draught for about ten hours every day, assisting to drive out the carbonic acid gas as it is freed from the stone by the heat of the coal. It also supplies oxygen to ensure the complete combustion of the coal, and a regular temperature being maintained in the kiln. The stone is the finest procurable, giving a very high percentage of carbonate of lime—97.6 degrees according to Professor Black's analysis, The manager (Mr John Kelly) is now opening up a quarry, he, up to the present time, having been using loose atones from the surface, which have become detaohed and fallen from the face of rock. The fresh stone from the quarry will be much easier to burn and will give better results There are two kilns burning—the object of the Government being to turn out first-class agricultural lime at a moderate price to benefit the farming community within the radius of the kilns—that is, 100 miles on each side.

Otago Witness, Issue 2522, 16 July 1902, Page 50

THE NEW GOVERNMENT LIME KILN, NEAR PALMERSTON.