DEAD SEA SALTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16914, 1 April 1929, Page 11

DEAD SEA SALTS

£SOO>OOO,OOO OF MINERAL

THE POTASH CONTENT Sir Herbert Samuel, lecturing at London, said that the mineral wealth of the Dead Sea, with its potash eon-

tent, if it could bo extracted, was estimated to be worth £$00,000,00(1 — enough to pay the whole cost of the

li would bo a long time, however, before that industry could )>c developed, and there had heen great delay over obtaining a coiiccssioa for working it. Although Palestine was too small for the millions of .lows in the world, developments taking place there nnder the British Mandate would make it possible for three millions of them to live there under the best renditions, Rvery year there was being volunlari c subscribed for the development of Palestine £700,000. Hebrew, which had lapsed, was now the language of the country. It had been possible to dispense with the military ocenption, which cost £3,000,000 a year to the British taxpayer, and in every way there was cause for satisfaction with work done Ivy Britain in the Holy 1,.-111.1,