IRON FOR JAPAN
DOMINIONS PURCHASES TOKIO, June 27. The Osaka industrial journal, Nikkan Kogyo, says that the Tasmanian Government has given a monopoly of Tasmanian iron ore to Japan. The Japan Sola Company is reported to have bought 10,000,000 tons of iron ore from deposits in Queen Charlotte Island (British Columbia), where Japanese engineers will build a railway to the mine.
Commenting on an earlier report that the Tasmanian Government had contracted with Japanese interests to supply large quantities of iron ore to Japan this year and next year, the acting-Premier, Mr. E. Dwyer Gray, said that the Government had no such contract with a foreign interest or anyone else.
The Government, he said, had no power to commit the State to contacts of such a nature. Mineral deposits could be operated only under the provisions of the Mining Act, and were developed by private enterprise.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19377, 15 July 1937, Page 11
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