PULVERISED COAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 140, 16 June 1930, Page 9

PULVERISED COAL.

POSSIBILITIES INVESTIGATED.

AUSTRALIAN MANAGER'S VIEWS,

"As far as cargo steamers are concerned, I think it will be only a short time before hand firing is eliminated," said Mr. W. L. Dendy, general manager of the Port Jackson and Manly Steam Ship Company, who is a through passenger by the Aorangi. Mr. Dendy has been on a six months' visit to England and the United States investigating the possibilities of pulverised coal. . There was no doubt that there were birr possibilities in pulverised coal/,said Mr. Dendy. A coal of'cheaper grade could be used, there was a saving of about 15 per cent, in consumption, and less labour was required to feed the fiios. Pulverised coal was merely sprayed on in the same way as oil fuel, and it was as fine as talcum powder. If pulverised coal were to turn out the success it promised to be, it /would be a hig thing for both Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Dendy was one of the first people in the World to use the wireless telephone between England and Australia. He heard conversation in the Commonwealth as plainly as if he had been I speaking to a subscriber only a couple of street-; away. The wireless telephone, said Ms. Dendy, would have to be regarded a serious competitor against the cable.

Conditions in England, said Mr. Dendy, were worse than when he last visited the Homeland two and a half years ago. The Conservatives were inclined to blame thei Mac Donald Government, but it was not a question of party. There were two and a half million people out of work, but it also had to be remembered that there were three million- seeking s-aiployment in the United Rate*. "

Mr. Dendy, although born in Australia, went to school in Ponsonby 40 years ago.