P-NG - Maybe

Aluminium Industry for P-NG - Maybe

V CAUTIOUS statement by the Australian Minister for Terri fies in October, indicated that some ay Papua-New Guinea might have n aluminium industry. But like all lew Guinea projects, it seems far ff and very vague.

The New Guinea Resources Pros pering Co., Ltd., with which is isociated the Australian govem lent, is surveying the hydro-electric otential (believed to be large) of erritory rivers. Extensive deposits f bauxite have been discovered on Vessel Island off the coast of rnhem Land—if these deposits are roved, the extraction may be done i P-NG and the products then sent )r treatment to Tasmania where

large-scale hydro-electricity is also available.

This plan seems to involve a great deal of transportation. However, it should be remembered that Canada which has one of the largest aluminium industries, drags some of its bauxite right up the Pacific coast from the Caribbean. With

aluminium the availability of large volumes of cheap electricity are more important than the proximity of the raw material, bauxite.

Mr. Gordon Hayward, former popular member of Rarotonga Radio staff, has recently been appointed Radio Inspector at Greymouth, NZ.