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———<*»————- (Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.) OIL SUPPLY PROVED. QUEENSLAND’S ENTERPRISE. BRISBANE, Sept. 26. Professor Steele, of the Queensland University, referring to fresh oil developments at the Roma bore, in Queensland, said that the flow was one of immense significance. Tlie 'Professor said lie did not believe that oil would ever flow up the well in any quantity; hut the problem relating to oil had been altered throughout the Commonwealth by the oil having been found.
Professor Steele said that lie was convinced that there was oil in payable quantities in the vicinity of Roma. His opinion was that the oil had passed through a. porous stratum in the form of vapour, and had then accumulated where it was struck. It should be obtained in periodical gusli-
The development marked an epoch.. He now had the most confident expectations of finding in Australia another of those raw materials needed for making Australia self-contained. A SYDNEY FIRE. SYDNEY, Sept. 26. A, fire in an old convict-built building on Circular Quay, in the city, owned by the Sydney Harbour Trust, and occupied by a number of firms, gutted two floors occupied by the Aloore Brush Coy and the G. H. Enemark photographic studies. The damage is £IO,OOO.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1927, Page 2
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