PULVERISED COAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 270, 14 October 1929, Page 8

PULVERISED COAL.

FUEL FOB STEAMEBS. PENDING DEVELOPMENTS. Success with the use of pulverised coal as a fuel for steamers is assured, according to Mr Robert F. Bell, overseas representative in New York for the National Union of Seamen, who was a passenger by the Niagara which arrived at Auckland the other day. “There have been some splendid demonstrations in the use of pulverised coal in Great Britain,” said Mr Bell, “and now that the Admiralty has taken it up it is hoped that shipping companies will use it extensively.” It is fully expected, says Mr Bell, that when pulverised ooal becomes widely used, mines all over Great Britain will reopen, and give employment to thousands of workless men. Not only the mining of the coal, but also the industries that can be founded from the by-products will absorb numbers of the unemployed. “COMMUNISM DEAD.”

Communism, Mr Bell declares, is dead. “Their object was to destroy everything,” he said, “and they have destroyed nothing more effectively than themselves. In America we have never encouraged them, and no doubt, in their eyes, we are the worst people in existence. We are quite satisfied .with the honour.” “Trade union movements are settling down, and the miners have dropped the Communists. They have even disgusted the Soviet,” said Mr Bell, “wno were undoubtedly at the bottom of it. They engineered it, and they . have paid for it/’ „ , , Mr Bell, who is a New Zealander, is on a visit to hia family m the South Island. He is anxious to retire and to eome out to the Dominion to settle.