OIL IN SCOTLAND.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 391, 24 March 1937, Page 3

OIL IN SCOTLAND.

Presence Tested. Tv'o meh, geologist and water diviner, will soon start oil Ibbring in Scotland. Mr E. C. Cunningham Craig, of Westminster, oil well pioneer in Persia, and Major C. A. Pogson, of Hove, formerly water diviner to the Bombay Government, are the prospectors.

They were granted a license recently, the first given to private persons in Britain, writes.' a London Sunday Referee special correspondent. All licenses previously issued were granted only to Barge combines. The site where the boring ig to take place is just south-east of Dalkeith, 19 miles from Edinburgh. Major Pogson said: “Mr Cunning-ham-Craig is convinced that there are oil-bearing sands on the Lite. “So convinced, in fact, that We have taken out a license covering only 12 square’ miles, whereas the big combines are prospecting over areas up to 200 square miles. “When I visited the district recently I tested it with my divining rod, and found indications of the presence of oil.

“Some time ago 1 carried out experiments with a can of crude oil, and noted down for future observation the effect it on my rod. “My rod behaved in much the same manner when I walked over the site where W» are to bore as it did over the can of crude oil.”