GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1929, Page 10

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

DOMINION TO BE COVERED. Towards tho middle of this month geologists of the Department of Scientific 'and Industrial Research will set out for various parts of the Dominion to continue their systematic geological surveys. Although this survey as a whole has now been going on year by vear for some considerable time, the work requires very great attention to detail, is necessarily slow, and cannot be done in the winter months. About one quarter of the whole Dominion has now been surveyed and good progress was made last year in the vaiious lo calities concerned. Except for certain scheelite areas (scheelite is a valuable mineral used in the hardening of steels), all the important mineral-bearing areas have been covered already. The gold and coal areas of the South Island were the first to be surveyed. Last year Mr. H. T. Ferrar investigated the geological aspects of the as yet uncompleted Te Kuiti district. It is hoped to link up this area in a few years’ time with the coal-bearing areas of the Waikato and the oil-bear-ing stratas of New Plymouth. It is then thought that much that is at present unknown about the mineral contents of these important districts will bo revealed. z