CARBONISATION OF COAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3972, 29 April 1930, Page 34

CARBONISATION OF COAL.

SPECIAL PLANT FROM GERMANY. AUCKLAND, April 22. The coal carbonisation plant to be installed at Rotowaro for the Waikato Carbonisation, Limited, a syndicate representing the four coal companies operating in the Waikato, arrived by the Ruahine from Hamburg. The machinery weighs 1200 tons and several pieces each of seven tons will require special railway trucks for conveyance to the site of the works. A German engineer, Mr August Finkbeiner, also arrived by the liner. He is the representative of the Metallgessellschaft Company, Frankfurt, and will proceed to Rotowaro to supervise the installation of the plant. He is the second engineering expert brought out in connection with the new industry, Mr D. Guwhitwell, of the Fueg Industries, Limited, having arrived last November The Lurgi process, which will be employed at the works, involves the extraction of light and heavy fuel oils, gas and other products from slack coal of which about 150,000 tons are being produced annually leaving the residue of high calorific value, which will be made i nto briquettes.

“ The world’s present expenditure on armaments for one year would keep the League of Nations running at its present rate of expenditure for six centuries,” said Mr E. J. Riches, of tire International Labour Office.

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