QUEER STORES AT LONDON

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22713, 28 October 1935, Page 12

QUEER STORES AT LONDON

Hexamethylenetetramine and yl.anfe ylang are being stored by the Port of London Authority in its various warehouses these days. Ylang-ylang is fairly cheap to keep since it is harmless, but the authorities . charge more for Hexamethylenetetramine, owing to its "‘hazardous” properties. The two. commodities are only two of the many _queer substances which arrive almost daily at the Port of London warehouses, and m main, in bales or tanks or tins or crates, until their owners require them. Others, quoted in “P.L.A. Monthly,” include Babuls seeds, lychees, chow-chow, festoko, duleine. divi-divi, and, last but not least, furfural, all fairly common commodities. Here are some definitions: Hexamethylenetetramine is employed medicinally fop. the treatment of rheumatism; duleine is a white saccharine substance some 200 times sweeter than sugar; furfural is a whitish, oily liquid obtained by the distillation of corn cobs; divi-divi are the pods of a tropical tree commercially used in tanning processes; lychees are the edible fruit of a tree grown in South China or Malaya; while ylang-ylang is the oil cultivated from flowers grown in Java and other islands and used in the preparations of perfumes.