THE OIL AGE.
"The age of oil is only just beginning," said the chairman of the G.M. Oil.Fields, Ltd., a company •which; holds a large stake in' tihe New Zealand odMeSdis, in the course of his. speech at a general meeting of tihe Qoompany in London. The chairinan, iMr George Macdou&ld, went on toi say -fthat he. had preached for some time tibjat soon they would see not- a! few trains propelled by liquid fuel, ;but ,all trains, "as well as the imeroanrtile marine arid the navies of the world. la five years' time he thought it would he a rare thing to see a horse oaib ia Probably tin from, teai to twelve year® S> would Ibe a rarity to see a steamer on the ocean wiim funnels. He had before him am accounti of a steamer without a funnel which, had mad© its first voyage successfully witih liquid fuel. It burned aibout two ton® of oil a day instead of eight tons of coal, lard the oil was cleaner and easier to handle. t
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10273, 28 June 1911, Page 4
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176THE OIL AGE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10273, 28 June 1911, Page 4
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