IRONSAND WORKS.
A SATISFACTORY FOUR DAYS' RttSL After running continuously since Sun* - day the directors of the smelting com-, pany nt Moturoa decided 'last night to. "cool, down" the furnace temporarily, and to take steps to make adjustments , to the-plant-, and start operations..later., with the-bigger furnace. ■ ; Every two or throe hours pig iron to the amount of ten cwt. was run off. TH i'bigger furnaco has a opacity of eomd 'twenty tons a day. . To deal with thi# | output considerably nioi-e coal, eto., la froquircd. On Monday a shipment of 300 tona is expected. The men, who, of course, arc new to the work, are gradually being broken in, and' it is anticipated . that when the furnace restarts tiie work • of sxmilting will proceed snwothly. j . All concerned are much gratified 'With / the results sa far obtained, and are hogeful that when the necessary alterations pel adjustments are made the . plant will commence pig iron pradufltion • su a cQumwaial,KMhfe-
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1917, Page 5
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159IRONSAND WORKS. Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1917, Page 5
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