OIL FROM COAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21540, 11 July 1933, Page 11

OIL FROM COAL

EXPERIMENTS IN BRITAIN NEW ZEALAND PRODUCT USED The statement that New Zealand coal had been used successfully in experiments for the production of oil from coal was made yesterday by Dr. H. W. Strong, an Australian research chemist, who is returning to Australia by the Monowai after spending seven years in England carrying out research work for Imperial Chemical Industries. Dr. Strong said petrol could now be produced from any type of coal except anthracite. The cost of production in England was about 7d a gallon, and in New Zealand the cost would be about lOd or lid. With distribution costs added, the new petrol would not be much cheaper than ordinary motor fuel. Production experiments had been practically completed, but no definite steps had been taken to put the new petrol on the market.

VIEW OF SHIPBUILDER " VERY EXPENSIVE PROCESS" [BY TKTjEGRAI'H—OWN CORRESPONDENT] WELLINGTON, Monday The experiments in connection with the extraction of oil from coal, which the Cunard Company and the Wallsend Slipway Engineering Company had been undertaking, were a repetition of experiments carried out at the end of the war, stated Mr. R. S. Dalgliesh, shipowner and shipbuilder, of New-castle-on-Tyne, who arrived to-day by the Maunganui from Sydney in the course of a world tour. Oil could be produced from coal, but it was a very expensive process.