SALT MANUFACTURE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 182, 11 January 1915, Page 4

SALT MANUFACTURE.

There appeared in tha Auckland Hcl* aid, under date December 2S, an inteft view v.'itli tlit manager of an AiuericMj sait company. This article has beeti repeated- ifl many newspapers throughout -;he Ds« minion. n It was stated that the present sallj 1 supply to New Zealand is largely Aua« tralian, and from countries now at wsui with the Empire. "I," This is quite wrong,- a s is shown Bj] reference to the imports to New ZeiM land in the last published statistic*. .. ' ,r .. Tons. United Kingdom 13,720 Victoria U5 .i New South Wales 210 '' South Australia 5,784 '! British salt (total).. 19 ; 794 ■! • Tons. 1 'I Germany 1,949 Holland ti 431 V Russia 786 I U.S. America 926 - Foreign salt (total)..* 4,092 ' Another statement that tihe salt being iised in New Zealand contains to substances (lime and magri& sium), is also wrong, as is disclosed Hji an analysis of the best known and moSB used brand of English salt imported, oi which the following is a copy:— Analysis of sample of dried vacuum salt, drawn by us from bulk for tK? Salt Union, Ltd.:— ,l Sodium Chloride .'. 99.80. ! Calcium Sulphate .. .03 7 Sodium Sulphate 17 J 1(50.001 7 ' (Signed) HERBERT H. DAV.CE9, M.A. (Camh.). B.Sc., F. 1.0, Edward Davies and Son<; The nliovu information is supplied Kjj tl'e New Zealand Salt Co., Ltd., agents for the Salt Union, Ltd.., Liverpool (Eng.), the largest salt manufacturer® in the world, and the Castle Salt Co-op.' Co., Ltd.. Adelaide (Australia), tflw largest salt manufacturers in the Soutlfc ern Hemisphere,