AUSTRALIA’S SYNTHETIC OIL PRODUCTION
(Special Australian Correspondent, N.Z.P.A.) SYDNEY, May 31. Power alcohol from wheat will be distilled at four plants being built in Australia. A maximum of 12,000,000 gallons a year will be produced. Power alcohol can be treated and used as car fuel. . The establishment of these plants is part of a Government plan ( to step up synthetic oil production. “An agreement has been signed and the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, the contractor, is now working on plans,” said a Supply Department spokesman. The agreement specifies a distillery in each of four States.” The potential synthetic oil production from the plants operating or about to operate throughout Australia is 60,000,000 gallons a year. It is believed that this output could be doubled by distilling oil from coal.
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Southland Times, Issue 24759, 2 June 1942, Page 5
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