COLONIAL CEMENT, CHALK, AND WHITENING.
Messrs Draper, Charters and Co. have now on view at their offices samples of each of the above colonial products, whore they have already been seen by many practical men, who speak favorably of them. The cement in particular attracts a large share of attention. It is intended to subject it to an analysis, and practically test it against the celebrated Portland cement, all the good qualities of which are claimed for the colonial article. The weight of the latter is llSlbs. to tho bushel, as against llOlbs, to tho bushel of Portland cement. The test is anxiously looked forward to by those in favor of fostering local industries, and as the area of chalk and blue clay in the vicinity of the works at Oxford is practically limitless, and as the cement can be sold cheaper than tho imported article, the hope may bo reasonably expressed that the time is not far distant when the money expended on this great staple of the building trade will be retained in New Zealand. It is to bo regretted that the discovery was not made at a period when Messrs Ingram and White could have claimed the sum which was placed year after year on the Provincial Council estimates as a bonus for the manufacture of cement equal to Portland in the province of Canterbury.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2051, 20 September 1880, Page 3
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228COLONIAL CEMENT, CHALK, AND WHITENING. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2051, 20 September 1880, Page 3
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