MAKE OUR OWN BENZINE.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 21 May 1920, Page 3

MAKE OUR OWN BENZINE.

_ — | wiiy not? r y n ’AT. can never understand why New I Zealand people are such fools as to go §• on reading thousands and thousands A of pounds out of the Dominion for jj|| petrol when \vc could make our oven If motor spirit from alcohol, ** observed P an experienced chemist recently, lie a explained that it v.. ■ absolutelv iuf credible Hint no ~r . o kid started the I industry. At the present time New | Zealand was not only paying e ery high Price.', *t good deal el which went to | foreign countries, but sh, was also at the mercy of an outside market, which she 1 could in no way control. Kveiv time there was a shortage of petrol the dairying Industry was put to inconvenience, the spirit went up “boom” figures, and no one iu the Dominion was ! much the better off. Thousands of gallons of alcohol go to waste ew.rv summer in the apple orchard, ol .\u<-k-I land 11ml other districts, -lev .;:. r ,-V.substance does to make alcohol; waav fruit is only one of the thing' that tonhl lie utilised, and instead of feeding' pig on the surplus of the orchard, as is frequently done, the orchard:its could be malting a decent profit, amt the advantage to the Dominiog would be tremendous.—Auckland “Star.”