TARANAKI PETROLEUM.
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;>:.: --Now Plymouth, January 27v- . Very encouraging reports come ■to .hand from" the TUranaki "Petroleum Oomjjany's bores at, Moturoa.". On Monday ten barrels of oil were taken from No. 2 bore; on Tuesday :. forty barrels, and on Wednesday ten barrels up to midday; To-day, too,: there 'was a great blow r out of: gas in the bore, cieotinp; oil higher than the top of . the derrick. This scorns to indicate .that - the drill has .penetrated the gas seam, "which, was struct near the of the Birthday "Well. ■ Conversing with the Hon. J. A. Millar Minister for Railways) to-night, Mr. H. Okey, M.P.j one o'f.tho directors, stated'lhat the company had iwo or three hundred 40gallon barrels of crude petroleum for sale, and'the Minister'.said ho would ascertain from. ■. Mr. . Ronayne (general ! manager of 'railways) whether ho;'could find any uso for a quantity. ■'."■■■' : '(■ \ ■:. ■
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 417, 28 January 1909, Page 7
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144TARANAKI PETROLEUM. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 417, 28 January 1909, Page 7
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