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Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1925, Page 4

XKAY S'.IOKKt.KSS I'TF.I.. I.OXDOY. .March :M. IVosncds of a considerable ahatrmonl of the* smoke miisnnre. together " ilh oppurtunity for I lie coal industry t<> t urn a waste product to valuable account. arc opened itj> by a week's successful test of a new type of fuel liv the Metropolitan Witter Board. Hitherto ‘.vital tip coal trade calls ‘■lines” and the householder knows ns 'nek” Ims been responsible for a wastage in opr national coal output estimated at t-’d.Obb.b.U tints a year. Tip slack barns most uasteltilly and streams in dense smoke front thousands of chimneys. Karlier methods of coinpresing this coal refuse into briquettes involved the use of coal-tar pitch, which increased the density of smoke produced. A new binding material, based partly on an extract from seaweed, lias now been discovered by Air F. (\ Thornley. of New York and Graes-ctiureh-street. K.C.. who though horn in tin’s country, has been associated t. itli the Amercnn coal industry for many years, iiy ibis means briquettes are bo i 1»,54 matuifailured in England whielt burn ns well as cobbles of natural structure hut 'five off no smoke or soot wisat- •. ver For a whole week the Metropolitan Water Una id has me.l nothing but this new type of fuel for its Campion Hill, Kensington, W.. pumping siaiinu. ant! the experiment is said to have proved entirely successful. .Mr Thornley states that tlio new process tan he employed by existing briquette factories without change in their equipment. The briquettes can bo burnt in open grates or closed stoves.