NITRATE PRODUCTION

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 823, 18 November 1929, Page 10

NITRATE PRODUCTION

PROGRESS OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES SIR LENNON RAWS'S VISIT Agricultural investigation in conjunction with the Agriculture Department is to be carried out in New Zealand by Sir Lennon Raws. Australian and New Zealand rep -e sent at ive for Imperial Chemical Industries, who arrived at Auckland this morning on the Aorangi. Fir Don non. uhu will sp- ml a n>v; night in the Dominion is .i p;>s«.president of the Australian Associated Chambers of Commerce and n attorney for the chemical combine he represents. “We wish to improve tin many points of contact between Import :i Chemical Industries and New Zealand and Australia," he said. “The mam object of the formation of the company is to co-ordinate work within the Umpire and weld it into one big unit, able to rank with the large units in Germany and the United States." The principal headquarters of Imperial Chemical Industries is at jJillingham in the North of England where nitrogen is extracted from air. the plant for it was the outcome of feverish experiments on the part **f British scientists faced with tin necessity of obtaining nitrogen stippli.-s during the blockade. Synthetic sulphate of ammonia was shipped to Australia and New Zealand by Imperial Chemical Industries for the first time this reason and one of Sir Lennon's tasks will be to gauge and. if possible, extend the New Zealand market. Deferring to affairs in Australia he said that trade was in a very depress* 1 condition. Many districts were suffering- from drought and the country as a whole was suffering from the extravagant expenditure of loan moneys resulting in a heavy increase of taxation. An increase of wages had not accomplished an increase in prosperity. “Unemployment T consider to be the most difficult problem of the future." lie added. "Of course we cannot expect to recover from the disease that is war in a rapid manner, but I think that conditions the world over are