OIL IN AUSTRALIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1921, Page 4

OIL IN AUSTRALIA.

A SENSATIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT. SYDNEY. s-'Pt'Tnber *». Various interests and individuals are not ie!a\ing their elide 1 vours to find oil hi commercial unantities in Australia and at two p>int> in New Smith Wale--, one in (Queensland, and one in Western Australia, at least, indications are slat • cd to he go' 11. IVospcctors declare th >1 it is (inly a matter of time for enormous supplies to lie located. The Federal Ooverntnenl offers a reward of £hOJMIO fir the discovery • ’ oil in payable (plantities in Australia and live claims an* now under ronsidtMution. in several of the -dates this reward is to be supplement'd by the Stale (iovermnents. the amount offered hy New South Wales being CIOJMMk The must sensational report that habeeii furthcoming from the Fitzoerald river, near Ihemcr Hay. 01 We* tern Australia. It is claimed that oil sands have been readied at 2D feet, and that they are steadily improving as the bore deepens. The discovery nf the iicld. Mr Fdv-ard l*ei kills has prospected the cuifn try for ml Com H a yens! horpe to | menu in for IS years, and is confident that he has the real thing d last. The lidd is mi a plain eight miles arms.' and 12 long. The dill faces are M-vera! hundred feet high. Mr I’der Martin who inform'd reporters who visited the site, that he had Stuttgart. Fni\eisiiv diplomas io Natural S< ieti.-e. o the licit! |ah oratory expert. !!•■ ay*lli.tl il will he on<‘ •!' the biggest odlields in the world, tin* surface shales alotn* yielding I'JH lotlluns to the t.Ol. lb; sa vs also that he ha- found an

ee.tiiiimieal process of extra'ting miner al oil from shah* without distillation. Mr Hiebard Wibam, (ioverunieiit Field (•eulogist, is in.spc'et ing the I'-eld, and will lake samples of the soil, oil sands, seepages and rocks to IVrlh for analysis. At present In* will mil express any opinion on the field or tile pros-

An ofTer was recently reeeiv«*d Ii\ the I’edeia 1 authorities from an Aineiican firm lo locate oil in New Cornea ami Capua by the aid of a divining road. This offer was not accepted. n s t h** Federal Alinistry have experts prospect ine in those* parts.