A NEW INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 14, 16 July 1936, Page 4

A NEW INDUSTRY

PEROXIDE OF HYDROGEN

Hitherto all peroxide'.;-';of hydrogen has been imported to New; Zealand, but it is now being prepared in. Wellingtbn'for the Dominion"market, and is one of the newest of local mahufac : tures. The peroxide under iiotice-.is being 'made by the/Fluenzol Proprie^ tary, Ltd., and for the, present is prepared ;;f or: .medical.- and '^personal use, and of the fullißritish: pharmacopaeia strength, having ten volumes of available oxygen. However it lias "now been decided to manufacture;- ani- industrial grade,for use in nraniifpicturing industries in Nejv Zealand and the heed for importing supplies from-overseas, will not then exist.^Plahs1 have been drawn for extension of -.the. laboratories for this purpose and for ensuring adequate and freshly prepared; ■ supplies for manufacturers' requirements.. "

One of the advantages claimed for the locally made peroxide is that risks of chemical changes, attributable to long transit through warm latitudes and long storage will be avoided.

Fluenzol Proprietary was not permitted to distribute its peroxide of hydrogen until its product had been tested and approved by its English associate chemists. The preparation of the article is described as one of intricate processes, calling for great personal care and exactitude and constant watchfulness. The company's medicinal peroxide is known as Proxogen and it is reported as being freely used by the medical profession and in hospitals, as well as in the home. But a wider field for the ""industrial ' quality is expected by reason of the increasing uses to which the article is put in local industries. In Australia chemists supplying manufacturers are reported'-as working three shifts a day in order to catch: up with orders, and one firm of chemists is installing, a plant—to cost £50,000 —for increasing its output. The manufacture- of peroxide of hydrogen in New Zealand has been submitted to the Government as an industry entitled to its favourable attention and interest '

For drunkenness in a public bar Thomas Charles Robertson Morris, a labourer, aged 43, was convicted and discharged by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today. On a second charge of obscene language he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within three months.