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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 128, 24 February 1919, Page 8

William .Foster Naylor wns fine .£25 and costs at Pahiatim on Wednesday for selling liquor at Pongaroa, in the jiolicense district of Masterton, on November 13. • I'lio defendant pleaded, tlint he lmd purchased the whisky To celebrate the armistice, and had given « largo portion of it away to friends. Experiments made at the Pasteur Institute in Paris by M. Kayser indicate that the seaweed L'aminaria, digitata is a promising sourco of alcoliol. The plants, previously washed to extract the mineral salts, or unwashed, were reduced by evaporation to 10 per cent. They wero then treated with water containing from II to (i per cent, of sulphuric acid for half an hour or an hour, at 122deg. C. Tho sugary fluid was neutralised to I per cont. of.acidity, nitrogenous material added in some cases, and wns sprinkled with brewers' yeast. Fermentation was readily induced, especially in the flasks containing nitrogenous material, and an averago of six litres of alcohol per 1001b. of dry seaweed was obtained. Tho investigator believes that with higher pressure larger (liiantities could be obtained; and that the residue could be used for the extraction of mineral matter and potash as byproducts. ■ Furniture, Floors and Linoleums look when rubbed with "TAN-OL." Brings-up wood-grain and pattern—gives a lasting polish— Advt.