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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 19 March 1921, Page 7

"Monev means nothing. It is .vhat vou do with it that matters | ,aid Mr Ben. J. Fuller, head of he well-known theatrical firm, to - 'Sydney interviewer. "I am gom?, 0 throw my whole heart and soul : as money, into, furthering education all I can | Education Ls our .one hope. It alone an calm the world unrest winJi i» | assailing the very foanda ions o ..ivilisaiion. It alone can dissipate he evil, in which the chaos 01. Bolshevism takes root and thrive* Co do something in the cauje o .ducation h»o been my amUioa or years. U has been my mten..ion when 1 reacn the age oi t ; u 1 still wants four yeare-absolu.oly ,o devote the rest of my hie U> .mproving the facilities tor oducacion. Amongst other things, I mrenu to establish an mst.it m sun and Surround myself with young «n----.uusiasw o! both sexto, v.no «il iot work lor nothing, lor l ; )o se to take the who;.-, burden ol Jiis on my own shoulders . . -~i; .hough I have made money, i lon't consider it belongs to uio ■xclusively. ~. .1 regard myse 4* the trustee of it, charger v , lM: duty of doing what 1 can .villi its for the good ot the .vorld. Education is the ih;sl. oil - ct 1 know of-'' Incidentall\, Mi ijullcr remarked that a year or wo hence he intended to reJin,ui*h his extensive theatrical incrcsts, and devote the rosL ol his if entirely to the promotion ot Hlucation. He has already given a •lyduey Rhodes scholar L\m nnionditionally, because the ailowmce accompanying the scholarship ,as inadequate, and his latest ,iove is to provide a number ot cholarshius 1o ' lKsist llUhvn \° i;.4icT education who«sc parents a\vc" not the necessary loeau'j.

la the course uf an iateresuuS' niper on "Coal Tar Products,' I cad before the Pharmaceutical >ociely's conference, Air (j. Yv.| Settle stated that- it was only in he last five years that any scnuus •ttempt was made to work up coal | ar products in New Zealand. | niring that period there had been tlaced on the market benzine,! oivent naphtha, heavy naphtha, oinuici'ciai carbolic acid, ercsylic cid. creosote oil. naphthalene,] ntliniceiH' oil. and pitch. Manuacture.l from these produe's wciv> (piid. solid, and powder dism-eetant-s- anti-eurrosivc paint, •nnil preservative, wood stains, nd fruit-spraying imperial Y*hilc his was a start, it had a;> yet nlv 'touched the cclrc of tins coal ar' industry. After referring to lie various commercial and other iscs of coal tar products, _ Mr "e'Uie Vf'iitccl'that creosote oil was n great demand for preserving iniber such as railway sleepers, olograph poles, and such like._ A 'ew Zealand firm recently receive:! n enquirv from America for 215.CO gallon* of lliTs oil. and the American firm offered to send tank teamers and to take delivery in \ r ew Zealand Mr Bottle also reerred to the local manufacture of ntert-ol black paint from pitch, ■.. hat-some of-it was being used to paint the new pipe line at Lake Coleridge.