BORING FOR OIL.
CHEEKING ritOSBECTS,
'(Per Pres:) Association.) Greymouth, last night. A letter from tho manager conducting boring for the Kotuku oil syndicate states that tho boro is down fifty feet, cutting at twelve feet a foot of sand saturated with petroleum, then sixteen feet of marine bottom Tho next twenty-four feet is sand and gravel, also saturated with oil, and the pressuro from below is forcing it in a greasy mass up tho pipe during drilling operations. Oil accumulated in the boro between drilling shifts, ten gallons, is now collected in drums. Visitors to the property to-day wero highly impressed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 892, 15 May 1903, Page 3
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