AUTOMOBILE FUEL
-Preas Asbh.-
Production of Absolute Alcohol SUGAR FIRM'S PLANS
(By Telegraph-
-Copyright.)
(Received 30, 11.30 a.xn.) SYDNEY, July 30. The Colonial Sugar Reflnxng Compauy is spending £200,000 on rebuilding r,o increase the capacity of its distillery at Pyrmont, and on facalities for the transport and storage of molasses. The company is embarking on production of absolute alcohol for use of automobile fuel, espeeially iu times of national emergeney. In making this announcement, Dr. R, W. Harman, the company's chief chemist, said that all the solvents necessary to the lacquex' and explosive indnstries were capable of bedng made at a reasonable cost in Australia from Australian xaw material, and this would be a steru necessity in times of war,
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19370730.2.54
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 165, 30 July 1937, Page 5
Word Count
120AUTOMOBILE FUEL Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 165, 30 July 1937, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in