THE IRON INDUSTRY.
(ENGLISH FIRM’S NEGOTIATIONS.
PRINCIPAL TO VISIT NEW PLYMOUTH.
Negotiations in connection with the establishment of iron works in New Plymouth are to be renewed shortly. Mr. Percy Scott Leggatt, principal in the firm of Thomas Summerson and Sons, Darlington, England, who have been making experiments in connection with the Taranaki ironsand, arrived in Auckland yesterday by the Niagara. Mr. Leggatt, who is accompanied by his wife and daughter, will be in New Plymouth in the course of a few da£s to decide whether his firm should continue its endeavors to establish works. It will be recalled that numerous comipunications have passed between Messrs. Summerson and Sons and the New Plymouth Borough Council on the question of the amount of electric power which could be placed at the disposal of the English firm. The latter have set down their requirements at a minimum of 3000 kilowatts, continuous supply, and have expressed a willingness to finance extensions of the electrical works to enable the development of extra power. 1 They are confident that
iron and steel can be produced commercially by the pleetrical process from Taranaki ironsand, if electrical energy can be secured at a reasonable rate.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1922, Page 4
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198THE IRON INDUSTRY. Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1922, Page 4
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