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Proposed solar
Avon-Heathcote In January 1920 the promoters of
Salt for New Zealand, p The Estuary of
salt works
Estuary
the Marine Electro-solar Salt
Manufacturing Works at New
Brighton sought the
reinstatement of the
Government's bonus offer of
1892 for New Zealand produced
salt and its increase from £500
pounds to £2000. The
Government declined this
request.
9
Salt from the sea: the
story of a great New
Zealand industry, p 22
From the writer's
notebook: around new
Zealand with 80
Christchurch: a
history of the
Avon-Heathcote
estuary, its
communities,
clubs,
controversies and
contributions, pp
192-193
The company was the brainchild
of Leslie W. A MacArthur (d.
authors, pp 149-150
1930) who, in 1895, had
published The Australian miner's
ABC of practical mineralogy. An
Australian, he came to New
"Late shipping",
Poverty Bay Herald, 20
July 1917, p 4
Zealand towards the end of
World War I. He said that he was
trying to implement the ideas of
the English writer, H. Rider
"Advertisements",
Ashburton Guardian, 23
July 1917, p 2
Haggard, who wanted new
industries to be established in the
"A salt industry",
British colonies to give work to
Ohinemuri Gazette, 4
the men who were coming home.
Cont. below:
February 1918, p 3
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