GLASS-MAKING IN NEW ZEALAND
A NEW INDUSTRY (From Our Resident Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Monday. The prospective developnvnt of the glass manufacturing industry in New Zealand is assuming tangible proportions, and with the authority granted by the Minister of Mines to the Southern Cross Glass Company of New Zealand, Ltd., to work the silica near Ashburton, it is expected that in a very short while a great deal of the money now being sent out of the country in the purchase of glass will bej kept within the community. The company, which has already taken in hand the erection of buildings of a value of over £IO,OOO close to the railway line at Ash burton, lias made arrangements to bring experts to New Zealand from England, Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia and other countries, totalling about 50 men. When the three furnaces that are proposed are fully operating there will be employment for about 300 men.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 130, 23 August 1927, Page 7
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