THE STORY OF OIL

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIII, Issue 13, 16 February 1932, Page 4

THE STORY OF OIL

LECTURE AND FILMS

SCREENING TO-MORROW.

INVITATION TO PUBLIC.

The Vacuum Oil Company, Pty., Ltd., issues a general invitation to all interested to attend thfc screening of the film, "The Story of Oil," tomorrow evening in the Leeston Town Hall. Mr J. Hawley Pennington, M.Eng., A.M.I. (Mich.) E., A.M.1.E.E., will give a running account of the screening.

Patrons will not be asked to listen to a learned and complex lecture on this subject, a lecture which might. b*ristle with technical terms, but rather, by means of a simple informal talk, may know a little more about these wonderful products than they did before seeing the picture. We are living in an age mechanical, and age in which we have come to take for granted the vast number pf mechanical conveniences that surround us. We could not do without our radio, our gramophones, our motor cars, or our telephones. They have reached such mechanical perfection that we rarely pause to consider the wealth of thought and effort that has gone into the production of these luxurious necessities. We live at such high pressure that we think we cannot afford the time to understand the principles underlying our modern wonders, but often a little clear thought would convince us that it would be a very profitable thing for us if we were to know a little more about some of these wonders which we take so much for granted.

Our forefathers had no cars in which they might use motor spirit and lubricating oils, consequently these products, which we so highly value, were cast aside as worthless. They did need oil for burning in their lamps, however, and the splendid results that could be obtained by this wonderful new substance, kerosene, made it of very real value. From those old times up to the present day we have witnessed a steady march of progress in which the uses of petroleum havte spread, and spread, until it is now safe to say that there is no industry in the world that could function satisfactorily without this marvellous product in some form or Gther. It may be in the form of the fuel that drives our cars, the lubricating oil t^iat makes our machinery run smoothly, the kerosene that lights our lamps or heats our incubators, the bitumen that makes our roads better, the dips that preserve our sheep from fly and other parasites, the sprays that protect our fruit crops, the solvent by which the dry cleaner cleans our clothes, the thinner which the painter adds to his paint, and so on indefinitely.

There is no charge t for admission, and all who can should make a point of being present.