PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1880. TARANAKI COMMISSION.
One more experiment in smelting ironsand lias been made at Taranaki. Again It is demonstrated that iron can be cA'olml from specs in the sand. But the question is nob the possibility of doing this; it is the practicability of making iron at a cost that Avill leave a commercial profit. Mr E. M. Smith, avc are told, Avas ••'commissioned to make a cog-AA-heel out of Taranaki metal.” Now business must be improving at Taranaki Avlien “ commissions ” of this magnitude are knocking about. But the commission was executed, though not Avithont extraordinary effort, for a perfectly now experiment had to be tried to get over the difficulty of procuring enough metal in Taranaki to make a cog-Avhccl. It Avas done. The “ commission” Avas executed. The cogAvheol is made. And uoav the value of property in Taranaki Is going up another 25 per cent, in consequence of the successful completion of this cogwheel “ commission.”
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Patea Mail, 21 October 1880, Page 2
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167PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1880. TARANAKI COMMISSION. Patea Mail, 21 October 1880, Page 2
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