BROKEN BILL WORKS OUTPUT.
Operations of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co., Ltd., iron and steel works, Newcastle, during the four weeks ended December 18, compare with the preceding period, in parentheses, as follows: —
Tar, gallons, 475,000 (476,000); coke, tons, 46,123 (46,234); sulphate ammonia, tons, 799 (796); pig iron, tons, 49,612 (50,345) ; ingot steel, tons, 60,852 (57,899); blooms and billets, tons, 62,448 (60,437); angles, beams, etc., 28in mill, tons, 48,497 (46,918); 18in, 12in, and Bin merchant mills, tons, 34,318 (25,941); rods, tons, 10,587 (10,382); steel castings, tons, 2949 (3589); direct metal castings, tons, 966 (1150); ironstone, from Iron Knob, tons, 107,312 (81,604); limestone from Melrose quarries, tons, 20,621 (10,368).
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 2, 4 January 1939, Page 12
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