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The first methanol bus in the world was placed in revenue service in Auckland, New Zealand in June 1981. It was a Mercedes O 305 city bus using the M 407 hGO methanol engine. This vehicle operated in revenue service for several years with mixed results. Fuel economy on an equivalent energy basis ranged from 6 to 17% mote than diesel fuel economy. Power and torque matched the diesel engine and drivers could not detect a difference. ReHabiUty and durabihty of components was a problem. Additional demonstrations took place in Berlin, Germany and in Pretoria, South Africa, both in 1982. 

Auckland Regional Authority converted two M.A.N. buses to use a cetane improver and methanol and South Africa investigated the use of methanol with a proprietary cetane improver. Eour Renault buses were converted in Tours, Erance to operate on ethanol and a cetane improver, Avocet, manufactured by Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). The results of these demonstrations were also technically successfiil slightly better fuel economy was obtained on an energy basis and durabiUty issues were much less than the earlier tests using dedicated engines. 

B. M. Bertilsson, "Regulated and Unregulated Emissions from an Alcohol-Pueled Diesel Engine with Two Separate Euel Injection Systems," 5th Int. Symp. on AlcoholEuel Technology (Auckland, New Zealand, May 13—18, 1982) Vol. 3. 

A. H. BaHweg and co-workers, "Pervaporation Membranes," Proceedings of the Fifth InternationalMlcohol Fuels Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand, May 13—18, John Mclndoe, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1982. 

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P. Mahon, Verdict on Erebus, Collins, Auckland, New Zealand, 1984. 

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It is a particular pleasure to thank the institutions which provided financial support to this work. These are the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, and the Bund der Freunde der Technischen Universitat Miinchen. I am also indebted to Professor H. Schmidbaur, Garching, for his continued interest in our investigations, to Professor G. Muller, Konstanz, for the x-ray structure determinations and to Professor G. Bowmaker, who was on sabbatical leave from Auckland, New Zealand, for critical reading of the manuscript. 

In the South Pacific, man-made debris was surveyed on 24 islands in the Thousand Island archipelago north of Java in 1985 (66). Polyethylene bags, footwear and polystyrene blocks comprised more than 90% of the 27,600 items. The main source of this debris is the dumping of rubbish and domestic and industrial waste directly into the sea at Jakarta. On New Zealand beaches, plastic litter was widely distributed and predominantly in the form of polyethylene and polypropylene beads. Near Auckland and Wellington concentrations exceeded 10,000 and 40,000 beads m of beach, and the unweathered appearance of the beads implied a nearby source (66). 

Tasker, R. Freyberg, P. (1985). Facing the mismatches in the classroom. In Osborne, R. Freyberg, P. (Eds.), Learning in science The implications of children s science (pp. 66-80). Auckland, London Heinemann. 

Chemicals from Natural Gas, Auckland, April 27-30, 1987 edited by D.M. Bibby, C.D.Chang, R.F.Howe and S.Yurchak Volume 37 Innovation in Zeolite Materials Science. Proceedings of an International... 

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