PETROL SHORTAGE
REMEDIES BEING SOUGHT. MAY BE FOUND IN COAT,. BY GABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT LONDON, March 9. Lecturing at the Royal United. Service _ Institution, Engineer Captain Phillips said the consumption of petrol in Great Britain had increased 3 per cent, in five years. If no discovery of oil, or a substitute, were made within the Empire our position in peace time would be unsatisfactory, and in wartime precarious. The solution seemed to be iiquefication, or ,W temperature carbonisation, or coal. If the latter nrocess were successful it would be a blow at Empire security for anyone, to burn coal in a fireplace.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 March 1927, Page 5
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101PETROL SHORTAGE Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 March 1927, Page 5
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