SCRAP IRON FOR JAPAN

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1933, Page 6

SCRAP IRON FOR JAPAN

PURCHASES AT NEW PLYMOUTH. QUANTITY FROM HARBOUR BOARD. Coinciding with a suggestion by a correspondent in the Daily News yesterday morning that the New Plymouth Harbour Board should dispose of a large' quantity of scrap iron lying in the vicinity of the port, men were yesterday employed loading the iron into trucks. These will be sent out of Taranaki so that their contents may be shipped to Japan towards the end of the month. This activity is the result of a canvass of the province by the representatives of a Wellington firm acting as buying agents for Japanese principals. It is estimated that about 200 tons of scrap iron will be collected from New Plymouth alone, most of it from . the harbour board’s property. In addition the agents have approached foundries and engineering worshops.

The arrangement with the harbour board was made at the beginning of August, following a decision by the board to dispose of the scrap metal lying about the harbour. A nominal price is being received for the iron by the board in view of the fact that there is not sufficient to warrant a ship calling at New Plymouth to load it direct and that the cost of railing away is heavy.