FUEL CONFERENCE
IMPORTANCE OF COAL. ' e (By Telegraph-Press Association). (Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 24.' Lord Reading presided over the third world power conference on fuel, which opened at the Imperial Institute before delegates representing fortyeight countries. Faraker, with science researches, L. J. Rogers and P. R. Duggan, represented Australia, and R. J. Harvey (Government Engineer), New Zealand. Sir R. Horae, in a Presidential adless said coal was the potential saviour of every country, whether bituminous, anthracite or lignite, which involved electricity, gas and chemicals. It also constituted industry, whether in Britain or the Dominions, with the
exception of Canada, which has a vast water power. Other Dominions, like Britain, were dependent on coal. He 0* denied the possibility of oil superseding coal. Most important developments were proceeding in low temperature, carbonisation, hydrogenation and pulverisation, which separately or together, were destined to revolutionise coal. Germany was leading the world in the utilisation of brown coal.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1928, Page 5
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