OIL FROM COAL
POSSIBLE AUSTRALIAN PLANT
(United Pi-ess Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. CANBERRA, August 11. It is officially announced that Sir Harry McGowan, chairman of directors of Imperial Chemical Industries, will visit Australia at the end of this year, when the Commonwealth Ministry intends to discuss with him plans for the future production of oil from coal. Imperial Chemical Industries informed the Government in 1933 that it would be prepared to operate a plant in Australia with a capacity of 40,000,000 gallons a year. The cost of the plant is estimated at from £8,000,000 to £10,000,000. In addition, the Commonwealth Government would have to forgo a substantial proportion, if not the whole, of excise on petrol produced.
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Evening Post, Issue 37, 12 August 1936, Page 8
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116OIL FROM COAL Evening Post, Issue 37, 12 August 1936, Page 8
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