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New Zealand Tablet, 10 November 1910, Page 1844

A trial was made the other day on the Hntt railway line of Taranaki petroleum as fuel for locomotives. A tank engine fitted with an atomiser for spraying the crude oil into the firebox successfully took a heavy freight train up to the Upper Hntt and then returned light to town. The experiment seems to have worked satisfactorily, though the necessary data to determine how much oil fuel costs in comparison with coal, how much it costs to handle oil, and what effect it will have on the firebox and fittings, will not be worked out by the authorities for some time.