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WAR ACHIEVEMENTS OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY. 
This, broadly, was the, line of policy followed by the British—a 
nucleus of Government shops at Woolwich, Enfield, and Waltham for 
the development of methods of manufacture and instruction of masters 
and men, with laboratories for research on materials and products. 
Co-ordinating these was an organization which crystallized factory 
experience and laboratory knowledge into specification form, . and 
through its inspection staff secured manufacture in accordance with 
its specifications. 
The policy stood the severest of tests, and, in conjunction with a 
policy of scientific protection, is adaptable under Australian conditions. 
If steadily followed, it will enable our industrial resources to function 
in war and be a support to the fighting forces on which the existence of 
our nation finally depends. 
Arrangements are now being made for the experimental production 
of power alcohol on ia considerable scale in India. Rice straw is to be 
used in the first place, but other cheap raw materials are available, and 
it is believed that within two or three years large supplies will be avail- 
able to be imported into the United Kingdom. 
Among the new industries established in South Africa during the 
year 1919 were aluminium works, ammonia, asbestos cement, bone char, 
briquettes or patent fuel, cream of tartar, dextrine, lacquer, and gold 
size. : 
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