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Otago Witness, Issue 3829, 2 August 1927, Page 75

A new industry, said to be a better proposition than dairy farming, is to be started at Northern Vvairca ('tales the Star). For years it has been known that, there was a valuable deposit of silica sand on a property at Bradley's Landing, and from time to time small quantities have been shipped to Auckland and the South Island, where it has been used for plaster work and other things in connection with the building trade, its remarkable whiteness lending itself admirably for this class of work. Now it has been discovered that it can be used for the manufacture of tombstones, wash basins, batns, sinks, patent w.c.’s, ornaments of all kinds, facings for stone buildings, and a hundred and one other things for which marble or other expensive stone has been used in the past. A company has been formed to work the deposit. An analysis shows that the sand is composed of 98 per cent, pure glass, the highest known percentage of any similar sand in the world.