OIL PROSPECTING
(0.C.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. Confidence in the ultimate results of the search for oil in New Zealand was expressed by the Minister of Mines. Mr. Webb, who has inspected the bore being drilled by the New Zealand Petroleum Company at Maturoa. The company, he said, had given a great impetus to the search for oil by importing two fine drilling rigs and boring to a record depth for the southern hemisphere (11.000 feet) at Midhirst. Unfortunately the company had not met with success so far. but its enterprise in a genuine attempt to find deposits deserved the rewards he was sure would come. Another oil enterprise commended by the Minister was the Superior Oil Prospecting Company of America. This company had finished prospecting, he said, and was now getting ready to drill in several parts of the Dominion—not Taranaki —with three of the largest drilling rigs In the world.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 169, 20 July 1942, Page 5
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152OIL PROSPECTING Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 169, 20 July 1942, Page 5
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