TARANAKI IRONSAND.
To the Editor. _ Sir—ln your issue of the 13th, a letter signed by "Vigilant" appears protesting against the Margit being ballasted with ironsand, and calls the attention, of the authorities to guard the public interest in the matter. Xow, Sir. for my part I think it would lie a mighty good'advertisement for New Plymouth to encourage agents or shipmasters to ballast entirely with black ironsand. When thrown out in ionic foreign port some practical individual might come across it and convert it in some simple way into a marketable commodity. There are millions of tons lying useless at our doors, and what are we doing with it, or have done? Let us show some foreign speculator what an asset we have close to our port, and yet. too unspeculatirc to make use of it. I think it would be to our benefit in every way.—l am, etc., PROGRESS.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 19, 17 July 1911, Page 7
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150TARANAKI IRONSAND. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 19, 17 July 1911, Page 7
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