OIL FROM COAL
POSSIBILITIES IN NEW ZEALAND
AUSTRALIAN ENGINEER’S VISIT
The inventor of a special kind of oilfiring, Mr. F. C. Fox, of Sydney, arrived in Auckland to-day by the Maunganui. He will instal several of his plants at various places in the Dominion and will investigate the invention of a Timaru man for extracting oil and gas from poor-quality coal. Mr. Fox is recognised as one of the leading combustion engineers in Australia. -He evolved his oil-firing plant after 15 years of investigation, and stated to-day that he is of opinion that oil-firing is in the same stage today as coal-firing was a decade ago. Mr. Fox is interested in the various inventions which have been put on the market to-day for extracting oil and gas from poor-ouality coal He says there are great possibilities in both Australia and New Zealand, both of which do not possess oil in any quantity. By stripping the coal, he says, it is possible to obtain large quantities of both oil and gas, thereby opening a huge new industry.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 529, 5 December 1928, Page 11
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176OIL FROM COAL Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 529, 5 December 1928, Page 11
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