MINERAL DEPOSITS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 225, 23 September 1929, Page 3

MINERAL DEPOSITS.

RESEARCH IN AUSTRALIA. AMERICAN SYNDICATE BUSY. AN EXPERT RETURNING. After investigations in Australia extending over three months, Mr. D. H. Newland, State Geologist, of New York, is returning to the U'lited States by the Aorangi, which arrived at Auckland this uiorning from Sydney.

Mr. Newland has befn carrying out research work in rhe Commonwealth on behalf of private enterprise, and centring his attention primarily on certain mineral deposits in New South Wales. He is sanguine eonerning the success that is likely to attend his efforts, but refrained from discussing the *iature of the minerals that he was inquiring about. "The minerals '. have been interested in are rare," he aaid, "and even if I told you what they were the average person would not know anything about them."

As in Australia and New Zealand, geological surveys are made by the State in America as an aid to mining, according to Mr. Newland. His particular department, he explained, wae under the control of the Education Department, though Congress subsidised the national work.

"I found Australia very interesting," he added, "and it Las a very«great future from the mineral point of view. 1 regret tllat I am unable to stay in your beautiful country, which is rich in minerals, as I have to get back to America and report to my principals."