OIL, AND STEEL SAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8166, 27 July 1906, Page 3

OIL, AND STEEL SAND.

Writes Mr C. de Williams, in the Wellington "Times": Glancing ovci ihe local papers frum New Plymouth, from which district 1 have recently returned, alter a short visit, i read thai some pessimistic v.situr had ictt bctund him a caustie icview <jl the i>r>>vinn; and its capi;.il by the puljiMied remark thai "i .< 1.; 11.1Ki v.,is the slowest place in New aland, anO New I'l\ n.oulh '.'.as liie sluv.cst place in Taranaki.' ■Such a remark, however wittv it ma> be c>.'ii-i-:cicd 3 is tar tiom ti.e tiutli. and not calculated to do cither justice or goud s■ -rvi..c tu euher tin plate or tiie pc.-pie. it appears tu me, after a laiilj reasonable investigation, tluit ah that New Plymouth and district require is a correct appreciation by the people of New Zc.-I.md and, in addition, an active inteiest in their national resources, which would enrich the whole colony, by Parliament. Both as regards the oil and steel sand (not iron sand) they ale soliel existing substances, and not myths of imagination; hut the sruggle o piove them to be the first and not the latter, ioi 101 ty years, leads grimly tragic. VViicn then historj in discovery and development tinaliy comes to be written, many wiii icam, tor the lust time, that lata naki has had its martyr pioneers for oil and sand, as it undoubtedly lias tiad in other ways, in its early settlement. I hat the piescnt member toi New Plymouth—Air E. M. Smith—lias gneii torty years' cotisideialioij may 1.0 l al lllst ill o; jjumi

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