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» __ The Hot Lakes Chronicle says of tho Waiotupu petroleum : — " The oil floats down a creek in many places, and as one walks along the side one's footsteps cause a more perceptible flow. The ground is positively saturated with oil and it has only to be probed with a stick when the oil will bubble up in nearly a pure statt and by applying a lighted match to the stick a torch is formed, experts have pronounced the discovery a valuable one, and boring will, probably, at no great depth, strike a lake of oil. The find is on Crown land, and the Government 1 has granted an area of 300 acrepto the promoters with protection agauist all comers, and is forwarding from Wellington its own boring plant so as to expedite the undertaking. Besides the oil it is intended by the. Company to treat minerals — hematite and sulphur — and manufacture sulphuric acid."
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 21 November 1891, Page 2
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154More Petroleum. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 21 November 1891, Page 2
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