THE GOVERNOR IN TARANAKI.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1036, 27 January 1911, Page 4

THE GOVERNOR IN TARANAKI.

THE OIL INDUSTRY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Now Plymouth, January 26. . His Excellency the Governor arrived at New Plymouth last night on his'first visit to Taranaki. To-day he visited the Taranaki Petroleum Company's works at Moturoa, and was much interested in the continuous flow of oil at' No. 2 bore, and in the drilling and sand-pumping operations at No. 3. At noon he unveiled a memorial foundation on Marsland Hill erected to the memory ■ of the Taranaki troopers who fell in'the South African War, the funds being the balance remaining of the local fund raised at the. time for assisting injured or incapacitated This afternoon, at'a civic reception, in the presence of several thousand, in the beauti--ful. EesorentionfiGirmmdsj llamas presented Twit'h' an illuminated address. In the evening lie was the guest of the combined Kedertafel and Liederkranz Societies at a concert in the Theatre Eoyal.

Ono of. the motor-cars at. the garden partv this afternoon was driven by benzine" distilled from petroleum produced at the bores of the'Tarannki Petroleum Company at Moturoa, and naturally aroused some interest. Drilling at 3370 ft. at No. 3 bore, the formation has improved, and there are indications of fresh oil.