LIME INDUSTRY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 166, 31 July 1937, Page 17

LIME INDUSTRY

Supplies for Orchardists and Farmers HAWKE'S BAY PR03UCT While to-day it is a commonplace that lime is of material benefit to farm lands, there is a further, but perhaps not as well-known, direction iu which lime is of great interest to the farming conimunity and that is to the sheepfarmer in the fellmongering of pelts and to the orchardist in the manufacture of fruit sprays. In the fellmongering of pelts a highgrado lime with a high calcium hydroxide content and an absence of grit has a direct bearing on the quality of and the resultant price obtained fortho treated skins. Heretofore New Zealand has lacked a lime of the highest quality, with the xesult that certain works have . been importing their requirements from Australia. For other reasons the orchardist requires a similar prpduct and not being able to cbtain it in New Zealand one Auckland organisation has imported a large quantity from America. With the establishment of the works of Lime Hydraters Ltd., near Hastings, however, this will no longer bo so, as the unique ua ture of the deposit — an outstandingly large deposit of calcareous sinter containing many hundreds of thousands of tons — permits of the production of a lime of the highest quality and free frojn grit. In addition to the letters of commeudation appearing tin the HeraldTribune on Jun@ 19 i'ro.m the Hawke's Bay Farmers' Meat So. Ltd., and from Hhe Gisborne Befrigerating Co. Ltd., a further letter has been received by the directors of Lime Hydraters Ltd. from tho Gear Meat Preserving and Freozing Company of N.Z. Ltd., Wellington, in which is said, "Having used a number of trucks of your lime I am very pleased to be able1 to say that I have found it most satisfactory Jr'or felliiiongoring purposes1. For lining pelts I found it excellent." Lime For Spraying 'Tho Hastings managor of th© New Zealand Fruitgrowers ' Federation Ltd. says that ' 1 the hydrated lime submitced by your company for fruit-spraying purposes proves to be much finer in particle size than any we have proviously handled. . , . this lime will be woicomed by the "fruit industry as a highquality product." The company having been established and the product proven more than acceptable, it is now proposed to buy che freehold of the property op which the company is operating under mining lease. With this object in view tho capital of the company has been increased by £5,000 ^to £13,500, and to rtato a considerable number of shares uave been freely applied for. Among (he applicants is one of the largest treezing workg in the North Island whose directors, after careful investigation and personal inspoction, have ugreed to invest £500 in the project, it being considered that the operation oi a compay producing such a vital bigh-grade product is of the utmost in- ' torest to the freeziug industry and to the farming community. Freezing Works Suppiiea It is of interest to note that even in tho first year of the company 's oporations lime was supplied to freezing works in Tokomaru Bay, Gisborne, Whakatu, Waingawa, Wellington, Feilding anJ Waitara and since the arrival of the hydration machinery trial quantities have been submitted to freezing works at Auckland, Tomoana and Longburn. Because of the high1 v gratifying reports on those trial quautitifcs it is fully antieipated that in the coming season the company will be supplying substantially if not the whole of ail tho freezing works at least in the North Island. The fruit induszry also in Gisborne, Ha.wke 's. Bay and Nelson have had initial shipments, and the prospects for future supplies are very bright indeed. This all means a further step in the industfial development • of the Hastings district and the.; circulation of many thousands of pounds oi fresh income among the community. The directors of the company are well-known, capable managers and are confident that the company is capable of and destined to return very handsome roturns. Tho seeretary, Mr H. G. CaTr, public accountant, Karamu road, Hastings, reports that the investing public is keenly interested and says tliat tho whole of the issue appears likely to be subscribed in a very short period. eppeawhots klshiyllto fsiraeue srffl All per&ans who are interested in the industrial progress oi the conimunity and who are looking for an iuvestment in an established speeialised industry with great potential earning capacity would do well to inquire from Mr Carr, who will bp pleased to have tho proposal submitted to the closest invcstigation,