Natural Cement?

Rock Being Investigated in Fiji

Suva, Aug. 2.

THE latest natural product of Fiji to be investigated is a kind of rock that apparently is similar to Pozzelena, a well-known building product of Italy.

There are large quantities of it near Suva.

It is practically a natural cement.

Crushed, and mixed with slaked lime, it sets strongly, and can be used in most of the various ways in which cement is used.

The material is now under investiga tion by the Mines Department of Fiji; and many people hope that it may sim plify the huge building programme with which the Colony is confronted.