SALT MANUFACTURE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2350, 5 January 1915, Page 8

SALT MANUFACTURE

There appeared in the Auckland Herald," under date December 28th, an interview with the manager of en American salt company. ' . . This artiple has teen repeated in many newspapers throughout the nonunion. It was stated that the present salt supply to New Zealand is largely. Australian. and from countries now at war with the Empire. , ' , This is quite wrong, as is shown by reference to the imports to New Zealand in the last published statistics, viz.-.— Tons. United Kingdom 13.729 Victoria yj New South Wales 216 South Australia 5,781 British salt (total) 19,794 Tons. Germany 1,919 Holland . ' Bussia U.S. America' Foreign salt (total) 1,092 Another statement that the salt being used in New .Zealand contains ■ injurious substances (lime and magnesium) is. also wrong, as is disclosed by ■ an, analysis of the best known and most used brand of English salt imported, of which the following is, a copy:— Analysis of 6ample of dried vacuum salt, drawn by us from bulk for ttoo Salt Union, Ltd.:— Sodium Chloride 99.60 Calcium Sulphate 03 Sodium Sulphate 17 ; moo (Signed) HERBERT E. DAVIES, ■ . M.'A. (Camb.), B.Sc., P.I.C. (Edward Davies and Son). The above information is supplied by th# New Zealand Salt Co., Ltd., amenta for the Salt Union, Ltd., Liverpool (Eng.), tho largest salt manufacturers in the world, and the Castle Salt Co-op. Co., Ltd., Adelaide (Australia), tho largest salt manufacturers in the. Southern Hemisphere. (Published by arrangement.)