WILFUL WASTE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 22, 20 July 1911, Page 6

WILFUL WASTE.

To the Editor. Sir, —"Progress," in replying to •my letter of the 17th inst., still maintains that shipping raw sand is the easiest way of bringing the sand industry to a successful issue. I differ. We will need every ounce of metal in these sands to help pay off our liabilities, national and local. He also displays his ignorance by stating that the late E. M. Smith's process was and is impracticable. Let me tell him that those who are trying to produce pig iron from these ganda will have to come back to the Smith process. Time will prove this, and ,1 am in a position to state that the process' evolved by Messrs Smith and Tweedale, in further dealing'with these sands, will [yet paralyse the public with astonish- . meat as to the richness of these sands [ generally and the simplicity and cheapness' of extracting all the mietals of greater and lesser value. All the industry now need's is for the Hairbor Board to sell the raw sands the same as they do the beach gravel, and let every one who may Ibe desirous of smelting the sands pay a reasonable royalty, thus providing a source of income to the Board and assisting the industry generally. All that is strangling the industry now is the fact that the beaches are locked up. Hoping that "Progress" will assist the industry to be developed, locally instead of waiting for millionaires ' or thle, millenium to come by urging ' the Harbor Board to wisely allow the sanldsi to be used the same as their i gravel dieposits are, is the wish of "Vigi- - lamt."—l am, etc., "VIGILANT."