MAORILAND COPPER CO.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2120, 1 July 1907, Page 1

MAORILAND COPPER CO.

MANAGER APPOINTED. 1 ' Press Association. CHRISTOJITIRCH last night. i, : The ; Maoriland .Copper Company, tdmited, have secured the;.services ol Ur. G. O. McMmtry., who has been pngifged as general manager and metallurgist for 'the last 16 years' Mr. McMurtry, who is an Associate •f the. Royal School of Mines and

Metallurgy and the Hoynl College >; Science in Chemistry, anil also a follow : of: the . 'Chemical • Society lias been engaged on copper smelting and refilling works for nine years.' He was Assistant-General and Metal-

hirgical manager at the smelting ivoijis belonging to the AValiaroo and tloorita Alining and Smelting Co., Ltd. Then lie became m- ■ he Electrolytic Copper Refining Co., it Lithgor, N.S.AV., belonging to tlio

Great Cobar Syndicate.,'which works he designed and erected. Returning to the Wallaroo and Moouta Co. as

manager of the smelting works, the whole of tlie designing and construction work, the purchase of ores, the’ sulplieric acid and sulphate of■■■copper works ’ were; under his charge.. AVlliie in this position Mr. McMurtry designed 'and erected a new electrolytic reiiuery. aiid altered the method of smelting, erecting a large calcining plant for .fine-dressed ores and rich matter based on his own process (which lias since been patented and ibtnined world-wide recognition) materially reducing the losses and rendering'tbe filie ores suitable; for blast furnace treatment). It might be mentioned that the annual output, ol the AA’allaroo and Mqonta is nearly "10'.000.000 pounds of copper, the C.-lii lid book of . -Goiipei- particularly mentioning tlieir product- as being a

blijst'er copjjer of exceptional purity mil adds that the “AValiaroo” .brand has a deservedly - high commercial tan'ding. ' Mr. -'McMurtry lias been on a Visit of inspection to the Maoriiand Co.’s property for- the past--.(-3 syeeks and decided to..accept'the position as a result of his visit.