IRONSAND INDUSTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1921, Page 4

IRONSAND INDUSTRY.

SUCCESS OF THE EXPERIMENTS HOPEFUL PROSPECTS. When opening the Industrial Exhibition at Wellington on Thursday the Prime Minister referred, among other subjects, to the prospects of developing the iron industry. He described the smelting test which he saw made with Taranaki ironsand at Darlington. * Mr. Massey said another matter they had heard a great deal about was the manufacture of iron. They had plenty of iron ore and ironsand in this country. There were millions of tons. Some little time ago ten tons of ore and ironsand were sent Home, and he went to see it tested. Electricity was used, and the result was perfectly successful. The iron was good, as far as a layman could judge. He had not yet received the official report on the test. The question, that followed was whether New Zealand would be able to provide electricity sufficient to make a success of the manufacture of iron. He believed it would, and it would be a very good thing when, they could produce iron for their own requirements, and probably the time would come when it could be exported to other countries. The people of New Zealand should look forward to making the best of the raw material to supply, not only the people here, but people abroad.