The discovery by Air. K. Page, of the Dunedin Botanical Gardens, that coke breeze, a waste product front the city gas Works, is of immense value in stimulating plant life lias led to the establishment of a new local industry—the- manufacture of flower pots from coke breeze and cement. When mixed with soil coke breeze acts as a purifier, and it retains this valuable asset in the flower pot form. Because of this factor, together with its tensile strength and porous character, nurserymen and others have taken up the new pot with considerable enthusiasm, —Star;
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18467, 4 August 1934, Page 6
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