A PROMISING UNDERTAKING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20127, 21 April 1928, Page 4

A PROMISING UNDERTAKING

GLASS WORKS FOR ASHBURTON. The Minister of Mines recently signed a very satisfactory lease in favoui of the Southern Cross Glass Company of N.Z. Ltd., for the rich silica deposits at Alt. Somers. The Glass Company is now firmly entrenched at Ashburton, and when we consider that this Dominion spent approximately £700,000 last year on glass, wc at once perceive that the prospects of the new industry arc excellent indeed. Again we might quote the splendid record of the Australian Glass Manufacturers Company, Ltd., which showed in .1927 a net profit of £179,365. Air H. Schnurpfeil, of Carlsbad, Czccho-slovakia, who is a recognised authority throughout Europe on glass manufacturing, expresses the following opinion of the Ashburton Company’s activities:— The silica sand is very suitable foi making window, plate, white bottle, flint and line hollow glassware of every (lescription. The building and planl will be eminently suitable for the |manufacture of these goods except [large plate and climatic conditions are very favourable. This enterprise under efficient management should be an undoubted success.”*