BACK TO CHARCOAL
In the nozzle of a gasmask there is packed a layer of charcoal, the most efficient anti-gas filler possible, and this has revived one of Britain's oldest trades. In Britain’s forests today you will come across charcoal-burners plying their craft in almost exactly the same way as did their forefathers of the Middle Ages. Charcoal is made by the "smothered" combustion of wood, which moans that the wood is burned in the absence of aii - . Wood—preferably oak- —is piled into a pit in such a way that all (hi faggots point upward. 'Die heap is then covered with turf to exclude air. and tlie fire is lit through a hole in centre, which is then closed. It takes two or three days of this slow combustion to turn the wood into charcoal.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1940, Page 3
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135BACK TO CHARCOAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1940, Page 3
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