The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY DECEMBER 6, 1915. COAL TAR PRODUCTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 2, 6 December 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY DECEMBER 6, 1915. COAL TAR PRODUCTS.

The fact that as a result of the deliberatioiiA of the committee set up to consider the practicability of manufacturing high explosives in Anstitilia, a factory for such purposes is to he at once erected is of considerable interest. But it is even of more importance to learn that the same committee is of opinion that there are splendid opportunities in Australia for the establishment of the tar-distilling industry. It is not in the manufacture oi high explosives that'the coaldistilling industry will be of the greatest -value to Australia, for there are many very valuable derivatives from coal which" a British country ought to he able to make, and which have been -allowed, in the past, to become practically .German monopolies. Aniline dyes, of which there is now a great shortage in British countries, are amongst the products of coal tar front which German chemists have made great fortunes and there are many largely-used drugs derived from the same source, which we ought to now obtain from British factories. If the suggestion is taken up vigorously it will he a very line move on the part of Australia. The great thing is to get going speedily, to establish a connection before it is possible for the Germans to get back again any of the business of which they have been deprived. Doubtless in Britain the chemical houses are directing their attention to similar channels of activity : if they are not they are missing golden opportunities.