Show PRODUCE NEW LIQUID FUEL spirit known as Na Natall te made in papua put on market cheaper than gasoline the rivers in the sugar growing districts of australia will run less sweetly now that alint the government lias has removed the he excise duty ot of a shilling a gallon allou which lias has made unprofitable the local manufacture ot of industrial alcohol every year tear so writes a correspondent of the london times trade supplement front from sydney hundreds ot of thousands of gallons of molasses have been run into those rivers because there was no profit in using the molasses to make alcohol hut but the removal of the duty comes as an important part of the movement now under way to replace petrol with industrial alcohol alco liol and thus make iau australla australia able to produce her own liquid fuel one immediate result ling has been the formation in ili australia of an important company to manufacture industrial alcohol and one future result seems reems to bo be that australians who now speak of petrol will eventually say na in natal a patent spirit which has been given this new name Is already being marketed at a price lower than petrol and the making of this liquid furl filet is about to lie undertaken on a lar large ge scale in papua where plants and trees have been discovered that are expected to yield about 73 gallons a ton A hundred square miles of country have been reserved on oil which some gallons of natal itea year are considered a reasonable beginning with the likelihood of increasing tile output to at least IS 18 gallons alien w hen it a system of re planting the land has been put in operation the plan goes further furt lier and will seek to engage farmers to cooperate by raising calsing crops of sorghum with an estimated yield of SO gallons of industrial alco alcohol liol to in the ton for a i share in the profits |