Lighting a Fire
Dear Aunt Daisy, Do you know that slack coal and crushed coke, to which water has been added, make the best fire you could wish for? To save paper for fire-lighting, here is a tip which may interest your listéners. Take a tin, an empty jam tin, or something of the sort, and almost fill it with kerosene; into this place a few fair-sized pieces of coke. To light a fire without paper, all you have to do is to take a piece of the coke, and here is the most important point), rub the} coke in the ashes; then place it in the fire and light with a match, and you will get a fire that will start anything. Pumice will do just as well if coke cannot be got.-Palmerston North.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 228, 5 November 1943, Page 19
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135Lighting a Fire New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 228, 5 November 1943, Page 19
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