the former country has erected a large plant for the manufacture of refined aluminium oxide from bauxite. In 1917 a subsidiary company, A/S Nor- disk aluminium industri, was formed at Holme- strand for the manufacture of aluminium sheets and kitchen utensils, and every description of aluminium vats and apparatus for breweries, dairies, and for the requirements of the chemical and foods industries. In 1923 the power-supply interests were vested in a separate company, and the Norsk Aluminium Company A/S took charge of all the other properties, including the Héyanger factories. In 1928 this latter company erected a new aluminium-oxide plant at Hgyanger for the employment of Professor Harald Pedersen’s method for refining bauxite, which gives a vana- dic pig-iron as a by-product. The company has now branch works and offices in Sweden and Denmark. The newest member of the Norwegian alumi- nium industry is A/S Haugvik Smelterverk, which built an aluminium plant at Haugvik, Glom- fjord, in 1926. Manufacturing operations were commenced in 1927 with hydro-electric energy leased from government power works in Glom- fjord. The power capacity of this plant is 24,000 kw., but the present lease is for only 12,000 kw., equivalent to an output of 4,500 tons. The total annual capacity of all these Norwegian aluminium works is 37,000 tons, but the aggregate output has not yet been very: much more than 84