THE MAKING OF SHALE OIL.
[BY TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.] iNVEncAROiLt, Thursday. Residents at Orepuke seem to find the making of shale oil in the neighbourhood not altogether conducive to their well-being. A correspondent of the Southland Times reports that since the works started distillation, the water in the household tanks is covered with a film of oil, while houses are being depreciated by a deposit of the same kind, which discolours the paint and oxidises the nails, causing streaks of rust. Houses a mil? from the works are being covered with a slate-coloured oily deposit. In Britain it was not unusual for owners of .such works to pay compensation to farmers and others around them for depreciation of crops and pasture by condensation of oil and sulphurous fumes. ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11619, 5 April 1901, Page 5
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