SMOKE NUISANCE
STEI* TOWARDS ELIMINATION IN WELLINGTON [ Per Press Association.f WELLINGTON, Feb. 23. A first step toward the elimination of the smoke nuisance in Wellington has been taken by the Wellington Harbour Board by the installation of a coal pulverising plant to fuel the furnaces of its pumping station at the entrance to the Glasgow Wharf. The station supplies power for all the cranes and hydraulic machinery on the waterfront. When formerly the furnaces were hand-fired, a large volume of black smoke was often emitted. To-day there was only a thin white spume coming from the chimney.
The board also expects that the new plant will enable it to make a saving on fuel costs. Cheap Now Zealand slack coal is used. It is fed by ‘hand into the hopper of the pulverising mill. Passing through threequarter mesh it is powdered by beaters to dust finer than flour, and mixed with the correct proportion of air it is propelled by fans along a pipe and into the furnace, where it ignites immediately. The furnace, 15ft. by 14ft. by Bft., is a mass of flame. Combustion is practically complete ana there is very little smoke.
The plant was inspected to-day by representatives of the shipping companies, municipality, commercial community and railways.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 46, 24 February 1939, Page 11
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210SMOKE NUISANCE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 46, 24 February 1939, Page 11
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