MOUNT EGMONT METAL WORKS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 622, 27 September 1909, Page 8

MOUNT EGMONT METAL WORKS.

ICY WOBDS, iNB.SrEEN/.PHEASB.. V) j; ""■■'■._., BT : ; ; Tm : ;Hok' ; E;' : M ; IirNZIE.; .•;.;>;;.•■■ i ;■■!. IBy Telegrasfc-Preji.'■ AmooliUob.) '■\ XV "•;-•':.. Stratford, September 25..;. .. The'Hoiu,E. MTlensde, acoo'mpanied bythv. .Mayor of -Stratford 'and party, visitor. tU - Mount Egmont Metal Crashing Works to-day, The stone is being obtained from the river bed, i and the railway fine; not boing extended to tha aotnul' quarries, this ... necessitates a great amount of handling, i which, was unfavourably, ■ commented on by,.Uie visitors.;: The Minister, .'in reply to; the'toast of,his health, at' Inn-• ;cheon, remarked that bo was "disgusted at.tho whole show. If ho were assured that snitabhv metal was ;thero, his.Department' would givethe two or three miles of'.railroad' required ta. reach-the quarries.' - I .'' ,■■';.<■.'. ~.',-'.';• •'■';' Mr. Hine, member: for the: district, said that he.was sure Mr. MTlenrie, having seen the con*; dition of affaire,, would mend it. The Mini* ter (interjecting): "Or end-it."■'-,;, .'•:'.'. ! COSTLY, BtJT TJSELESS. v\.. o ' 'IB j Tolegr»pb.-RDCcIM Oorreipondtnt.) ; '-,■■ '... :" ■'■,"'■' ' Stratford, Septomlier' 25.■; ■ The Government „ stone crushing, .works at Mount-Egmont were, constructed,at a cost.of upwards of; fifty thousand pounds, for. tho pur-, pose of; supplying local bodies with., cheap metal. As a result of the inspection,.tho working of .the' undertaking , was' .forcibly, .condemned by the- Minister as being' both, primitive and costly in the oxtreme,, thus fully .bear-;, ing out the criticism .made, in; the,House;.last session-.by. the member for., Stratford,, in. connection .with these.works.;