RECORD OF ACCOMPLISHMENT. 
Record of Accomplishment. 
Paper from 
Eucalypts. 
Substitute for 
Tinplate. 
- Utilization of 
Local Clays. 
Flax 
Cultivation. 
Alcohol 
Engines. 
Felspar. 
Tobacco 
Cultivation. 
Vitrified 
Earthenware. 
Scorifiers. 
The Sparrow 
Pest. 
Seger Cones. 
Mechanical 
Cotton Picker. 
For the first time in Australia it has been demon- 
strated that a good quality of paper can be made from 
Kucalypts. Young karri was used. 
Many industries were assisted during the war period, 
when the use of tinplate was prohibited, through the 
invention of suitable cardboard containers as a sub- 
stitute. 
Test pieces and numerical data collected after ex-. 
haustive research at the Perth Geological Survey 
Laboratory are being continuously used by manufac- 
turers in search of clays suitable for their purposes. 
As the direct’ result of cables that passed between the 
Advisory Council and the Imperial Government, the 
Flax Committee was formed, and the area under flax 
has been extended from 400 acres to 1,600 acres, with 
un expectation of 10,000 acres next season. 
Following on the work done on the subject of power 
alcohol and alcohol engines, a method has been dis- 
covered for starting these engines from cold. This has 
baffled engineers the world over for the last quarter of 
a century. 
An eastern State porcelain company has been put 
in touch with a supply of felspar in Western Australia 
much freer from iron than that hitherto used. 
As an outcome of the Agricultural Conference held 
under the auspices of the Advisory Council last year, the 
tobacco companies have agreed to take 2,000,000 lbs. 
of Australian-grown tobacco at a satisfactory price. 
Heavy losses having been incurred by a Western 
Australian potter through vitrified ware, local clays 
were tested and their use eventually recommended, 
which proved suitable. 
These have been made in Perth from Australian 
clays and used against the imported article. 
Western Australia is the only part of the Common- 
wealth that remains free from the sparrow pest. The 
Institute has taken steps to prevent their travelling 
westwards along the transcontinental line. They are 
being shot, and so the western State is being saved thou- 
sands a year. 
These were formerly imported, chiefly from Germany 
and the United States of America. After investigation 
they are now being made out of Australian clay. Their 
use is for determining kiln temperatures. 
A machine has been constructed embodying the 
results of initial laboratory tests, and suitable tractable 
varieties of cotton have been plteatie for a large scale 
test. 
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