GOLDEN BAY CEMENT CO.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 694, 20 December 1909, Page 10

GOLDEN BAY CEMENT CO.

/ ; . TENDERS: FOR PLiNT LET. ■: The Golden Bay- Oement Company, . Ltd., which Has been formed to work tho limestone deposits at Golden'/Bay, on the far side of Blind Bay--110 miles -from Wellington—has been making quiet. progress for some time. ■ Oyer . two-thirds-of the capital. (£60,0G0) has been subscribed ' and applications for tho remainder of tho shares are beine received. The latest Btop taken by the company has been to accept a tender for tho whole of the plant necessary for tho manufacture or cement from the crude limestone. Tenners wero - called in two sections,:. (1) for tho cement manufacturing plant, and (2) for tho steam power- -and-'- olectrical plant - to ; drivo' tho machinery. '. The 'first contract has' been lot ■to Messrs. Krnest. Newell, and Co., Ltd., of- Mis- . tcrton, Gainsborough, England, a very . highclass .iirm, whose cement-making plants are considered among the best in the world. -The electrical and power plant is to bo'supplied by Messrs. Turnbull and Jones, of Wc!!inj»ton. as agent for tho British Westinghouso Oomoany. The aggregate cost of the works (both contracts) is about £30,000. ; . The_compa n y has appointed Mr. H. W. Ander- 1 son, ,11.11181.0.1!., of London, as consulting engineer at Home, m connection with Messrs. Lowell and Company's contract. -This ;gentle•man.. who is an expert in cement and worlis for its manufacture, visited Goldon Bay a few months ago . while spending • a holiday -in New Zealand, and reported favourablo on tho-pros-pects- of. tho company in working the nronertv on thp other Bide of the Strait. ,Tho plant to be supplied will be the most ns-to-date in the ™16,0f Australasia, and will include a rotary kiln (125 ft. by. BfU, larger than any other in New Zealand or Australia. Thcro is a, good deal of preliminary work to do before the plant can be erected. Tho works are to bo located on a ten-acro block, which runs up a little valley, the sides of which will 'have to be'excavated a little to accommodate the principal building. The valley ends in a sheltered bay'with a depth of water capablo 01 accommodating steamers a good aeal lareer than are likely to call there for a year or two V^ a . to ran out an embankment for SSSSL ®«I" 3 v 10 a /, K P up °? ro^ B in the middle of the bay, and from there to nroitrta wooden wharf for 150 ft. Tendors wUI ba called for tho -erection- of tlio, wharf immediately- after thc when tho preliminary ■ worlt ashore, wiilf also be started.. . Tho wholo of ;the plant from/Home is to be delivered and; erected in twelve • months.