The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1914. FUEL FOR STEAMERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 22, 26 January 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1914. FUEL FOR STEAMERS.

It is quite reasonable to anticipate that oil will soon displace coal as fuel on the principal linos of steamships trading between Australia, NewZealand, and North America, and it is equally on the cards that at leastsome New Zealand oil may find use in this service. Every experiment so far carried out in this connection has been remarkably successful. The Niagara, owned by the Union Steamship Company, has been using oil, and the engineers are enthusiastic over its advantages in regard to the maintenance of steady steam pressure

land resultant even speed, cleanliness in the stokehold as well as throughlout the ship, and reduction of labor. The same furnaces can be employed for either coal or oil fuel, the change from one to the other being effected at a very inconsiderable cost, while the tanks hold about 5000 tons of oil. a quantity which is more than necessary for the round Sydney-Vancouver trip. Another oil-burner, the Venjtura, which is regularly employed by [the Oceanic' Steamship Company on the Sydney-San Francisco route, has with one exception during the past eighteen months readied the Californian port at the same hour on each i 1 voyage. , When it is remembered [that this vessel has to maintain a !speed of sixteen knots throughout a passage of 7000 miles, her punctuality is all the more remarkable. Passengers by this route can do the journey between London and Sydney. via New York and San Francisco, in twenty-nine days.