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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 138, 9 July 1909, Page 3

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OPERATIONS AT MOTUKOA. After many months of hard and try'"g, work > ilr - Simpson yesterday sue wh.Vh )!" re f veri ?S tb e six-inch casing »fiich has Stopped operations for over 3 bo , re - 11 will be rem,:m[J . tliat J ust when things' seemed to be gomg sweetly at this well, some 2500 oT thJ ™ S ' ng J 5 T Vay ' Tlu! weigHt of the mass caused the .bottom lengths and so <lisiraferi J ■ ♦ T SSure as t0 teoomc the , 6ldcs ° f »»e tore. tried W* °L t0 ? 1 ' and Rimne without suece6s, until Mr. b S.h C 7 menCed , With a con ' r ivance oj Which he succeeded in cuttiV tliM \ trlps ' , wheß draw et IZ trOUUe -- h shoull l tn , 5 if °, g0 oa smk 'iS this well the director T feet bedded net with. Un ' eSS oil * at™, ap P arent diminution in veil H °'] the conl P«"y's i\o. 2 . ®/ .""d-day on Wednesday 25' 'd sill m -^T d oil I,ad becn obtain-1 he numn i on Suilda - V ' "'though ae pump was not working from 7 oil I "Monday 4111 2 P-m- on fuesday. The ! . ™ th " s Save out on Monday evening ! ■ d operations were suspended unii ' ut on 10 ™rt ng ' "' h - en " eW leathers w ™ ut o„ and pump rcsumed Qn Tueg av afternoon. Oil was coming freeh sua" Ah- q' ! rat '' er ™ ore gas tlmr nUt?, Slm P on expects that by tli' Hl* ;,. WCC , k t,le ■ vield will be ven , less than ,ast week's, although th" f urnp was Stopped for nineteen hours he well ,s supplying almost sudden: »s to keep the pump going, only a nail quantity of the dirty oil being »ed under the boiler. Thus the work® g expenses a re relieved very coneidrably. In fact, almost the only exmse at the well is the wages of the an in charge of the pump.