TARANAKI IRONSAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 174, 25 July 1903, Page 2

TARANAKI IRONSAND.

The assertion made on Wednesday by several members of the Home that electrical tramway plant could not; be manufactured wihin the colony had o;:e l'osult wt:ii:h might have beau foreseen—it aroused the indignation of Mr E. M. Smith, who angrily protested sui h an aspersion upon the fair fame of this colony in general, and Taranaki in particular. Having drawn for the admiring House a picture of the uuique an J wonderful things which would have happened had Sir Julius Vogflfollowed his advice some years ago, Mr Smith proposed to members that an afternoon should be set aside on which ho would recount to them some of the bentfi's which would accrue to this colony from a liberal treatment of ironsand. Iccidentally ha observed that soma au'hority had described him as the greatest scientist New Zealand possessed—an opiuion which the House endorsed with generous "hear, heirs." Mr Smith, moreover, was understood to say that he might go back to England, and that when ho did get there the people would agree that he hsd done more for New Zsaland thin Edißon had done for America. The member for Taranaki is arranging for a Parliamentary excursion to New Plymouth on Saturday. —Times.