The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WHICH IS INCORPORATED THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1914. TARANAKI IRONSAND.
The most recent account of the ex-1 periments in the manufacture of pigiron from Ifoxanaki titaniferous sands is' good news for those who believe in a highly profitable future for New Zealand's neglected iron ores, and who (the Lyttelton Times ,sayS) sea with the eye of faith,,, the great buildings and tall smoke stacks of iron foundries, the sign. and token of a new and splendid industry, rising on the sea front at New Plymouth and j Opunake and Patea. In view of the many' failures in the iron smelting business in Taranaki, and the large sums of money which have been sunk in the hopeful endeavors to turn the enormous deposits of wealth-bearing, heavy black sands to account, it may not be wise to be over sanguine as to the results of the latest process, but the signs are propitious, and it looks as if the persevering people who have stuck to their experiments have met with a success which will be permanent. The story of the struggles with the Taranaki sands goes back a long way. At the New Zealand Exhibition in Christchurch in 1907-8, numerous articles of ironware manufactured from the West Coast ironsand were shown, but these were by no means the first. As far back as the beginning of the 'fifties specimens of cutlery were made from the Taranaki seashore ores, and were shown at the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace. Many years later wheels manufactured from the same sands were exhibited at an exposition in Sydney, and many another article of ironware has been turned out from this unpromising-looking raw material. All New Zealanders wish the new business success, for the establishment of a big iron industry, drawing upon the inexhaustible stores of ore on tho coast and the hills of Parapara, means a great deal to the Dominion. There should be no need to import a single iron rail, or an iron water-pipe, or any one of a hundred other articles that .could be mentioned, with all this material ready to our hands.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 276, 19 November 1914, Page 4
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