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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 590, 7 December 1920, Page 2

Ample supplies of cement are being received in connexion with the hydroelectric works it Rakauroa (Poverty Bay). The contractors received an offer of 4000 tons of Norwegian cement in barrels of 2571b., at a landed price practically the same as it would cost to bring cement from New Zealand works, one of the conditions of the syle being that the firm should take the whole consignment (states the Taranaki Herald). The lowest quotation for all imported cement is I from Norway, which lias to buy coal I at Newcastle (Australia), and ship it! to Norway for the purpose of manu- j picturing the cement. I