POWDERED COAL
FOR RAILWAY ENGINES? Mr R. P. Hudson (Motueka) intend! to ask the Minister for Railway, whether he will undertake to introduce the use of powdered coal as fuel in tho engines of a small section of the railways, as an experiment, preferably on the Wcstport-Mokihinui line, which ix self-contained, having only a few engines in which a trial could be made without in any way dislocating the service ? “On this line (states the hon. member) thousands of tons of the finest bituminous coal in the country, now going to waste, are available at a nominal price. The advantages of the system are said to be enormous: complete combustion, no waste, no clinker, no ash, no possibility of setting the country on fire, and the utilisation of a cheap and vaiuable fuel now being lost or destroyed.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11254, 5 July 1922, Page 8
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138POWDERED COAL New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11254, 5 July 1922, Page 8
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