MINERAL WATERS OF AUSTRALASIA. Q7 
No. 3.—ON THE COMPOSITION AND PROPERTIES OF 
THE MINERAL WATERS OF AUSTRALASIA. 
Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor A. Liversidge, 
F.R.S., Mr. W. Skey, F.C.S., and Mr. G. Gray, F.CS. 
(Secretary). 
REPORT. 
In the following Report, the composition only of the mineral 
waters of Australasia is dealt with. Analyses have been collected 
from all available sources, and the results arranged in geographi- 
cally alphabetical order under the names of the respective colonies. 
The list is necessarily incomplete, and the information given in 
some cases is of a fragmentary character. Considerable work yet 
requires to be done in the classification of the waters, and in 
gathering information regarding their therapeutic qualities. 
The results generally are expressed in grains per gallon, and 
for the purpose of so doing it has been found necessary to recal- 
culate them in some cases. With regard to the New Zealand 
waters, the labour of collecting results has been much reduced by 
a free use of the information given in the official Year Book, 1896, 
which contains an article by Sir James Hector on the subject. 
The thanks of the Committee are due to those gentlemen who 
assisted by furnishing particulars relating to waters coming under 
their notice. 
NEW ZEALAND. 
Abbotsford, Otago.—W. Skey. XVIIth Colonial Museum and 
Laboratory Report, 1881-2, p. 54. 
Acid chalybeate water.—Total solids, 304:01 grs. per gal.; 
sulphuric acid, 191-87. Contains considerable quantity of ferrous 
oxide and a little ferric oxide in combination with sulphuric acid, 
also free sulphuric acid ; deposits basic peroxide of iron compound 
on boiling. 
Akitio, Wellington.—W. Skey. Transactions, New Zealand 
Institute, vol. X, p. 447. 
Chalybeate water.—Total solids, 37°65 grs. per gal.; lime, 
13°14 ; soda, with a little potash, 4°68.; magnesia, 2°32 ; iron and 
alumina, ‘93 ; carbonic acid combined, 9°57 ; sulphuric acid, 1:02 ; 
chlorine, 1°84; silica, 4:15; charged with free carbonic acid. 
Valuable as a tonic ; similar to the waters of Pyrmont (Waldeck), 
and Recoaro (Venetia). 
