MAKING BRIQUETTES
NEW INDUSTRY FOUNDED EXPERIMENTS BY GOVERNMENT (•Special to TUB SUN) WELLINGTON, Today. An experimental plant capable cf making five to lOcwt of briquettes a day has been bought by the Government, according to an announcement made yesterday by the Minister in charge of the Department of Scientific Industrial Research, the Hon. H. Atmore. The plant was established on the recommendation of the Fuel Research Committee for trying out various materials as binders for coal slack. It is hoped that this experimenting will lead to a great deal of waste being obviated. In some of the smaller coalfields the amount of slack is not enough to justify the erection of carbonising works, stated the Minister. Experts considered that an industry could be built up in making briquettes once the nature and amount of binder and the fineness of the coal which would give best results, were realised. This -would be discovered in the course cf experiments with the new plant.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 780, 28 September 1929, Page 8
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