OIL DEVELOPMENTS.
GREAT ACTIVITY AT MOTURUA (By Telegraph — P*r Press A?3ociatiorc») NEW PLYMOUH, . April fi. This afternoon No. 5 bore at Moiuroa showed great and very menur-ag-ing- activit}', there being two excep tionally violent "blow-outs" during the afternoon at a depth of about 1500 ft. . There was no time to withdraw the boring" tools, which were hurled out of the casing with terrific force wrecking 200 ft. of steel cable. The debric toeing" spread a quarter , of a male away, despite the derrick being roofed in.
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Grey River Argus, 7 April 1911, Page 6
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86OIL DEVELOPMENTS. Grey River Argus, 7 April 1911, Page 6
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