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Show fHUDUCE NEW LIQUID" FUEL Spirit Known as "NatalKe," Made In Papua, Put on Market Cheaper Than Gasoline. The rivers In tho sugar-growing districts dis-tricts of Australia will run less sweetly sweet-ly now thnt the government has removed re-moved the excise duty of a shilling a gallon, which has made unprofitable the local manufacture) of Industrial alcohol. Every year, so writes a correspondent cor-respondent of the London Times Trade Supplement from Sydney, hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of gallons of uiotnsses have been run Into those rivers because there was no profit In using the molnsses to make alcohol; but Ihe removal of tho duty comes as nn Important part of tho movement now under way to replace petrol with Industrial alcohol nnd tnus make Australia Aus-tralia nble to produce her own liquid ruel. One Immediate result hns btfen the formation In Australia of nn Important Impor-tant company to manufacture Industrial Indus-trial nlfohol: nnd one future result seems to ho that Attstrnllnns who now speak of petrol will eventually say "nntnlllo." In Nntol n pntent spirit which has been given this new name Is nlrendy being mark (ted nt n price lower than petrol, nnd the mnklng of this liquid fuel Is ntinut to be undertaken under-taken on n large srnlc in I'npua, where plants nnd trees hnvo been discovered thnt nre expected to yield about 73 gallons n ton. A hundred square miles of country have been reserved on which some 5,500,000 gallons of natal-Ite natal-Ite a year are considered n rensonnble beginning with the likelihood of Increasing In-creasing tho output to nt least 18.-000,000 18.-000,000 gallons when n system of re-planting re-planting tho land hns been put In operation. The plan goes further, and will seek to engngo farmers to cooperate co-operate by raising crops of sorghum, with an cstltnntcd yield of 80 gallons of Industrial alcohol to the, ton, for n share In the profits. |