MOTUROA OIL BORES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 124, 3 September 1910, Page 5

MOTUROA OIL BORES

ANOTHER WELL FLOWING. THIRTY BARRELS A DAY. The manager of the Taranaki Petroleum Company reported last night that No. 3 well had been very active throughout the day, and as the day advanced the flow of oil increased. While the casing is being inserted id is impossible, of course, to secure all the oil that comes away, but when the casing is all in, and the pipe connected with the tanju— work which was to be undertaken last night—all of it will be saved. ' There was a splendid flow of oil shortly after six o'clock last night, Mr. Keith estimating the flow at the rate of about 30 barrels a day. Had a tenth of this quantity of on flowed from a well two years ago, New Plymouth would have been almost in a fever. Nowadays the people are taking the success of the prospecting operations quite as a matter of course. With two ' wells flowing oil—one at 20 barrels and the other at 30 barrels daily—there is . season to say that the prospect of the oil industry in New Zealand was never brighter.

PARLIAMENTARY PARTY'S VISIT. The members of Parliament who are to inspect the country along the route of the proposed Eltham-Opunake railway with Mr. B. Dive, Y..V., for to-morrow, will come on to New Plymouth by Monday morning's train,,accepting the invitation of the Taranaki Petroleum Company's directors to visit the works at Moturoa. It is probable that several members will arrive here with Mr. Okey, M.P., to-night. The directors met last night to make [arrangements for the reception and entertainment of the visitors. It was decided to invite the co-operation of the Mayor, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, and the president of the Tradesmen's Association. The Parliamentary party will bo met at the railway station on Monday morning by the directors of the company and the other members of the reception committee, and the Mayor will briefly extend a welcome on behalf of the burgesses. I Luncheon will be served at the White Hart Hotel at 11.45 a.m., the guests [comprising the Mayor and councillors; [the chairman of the County Council, the chairman of the Taranaki Oil and Freehold Company, and the chairman of the Inglewood Oil and Prospectiug Company, and the presidents of the Chamben of Commerce and Tradesmen's Association. Speech-making is to be reduced to a minimum. At one o'clock vehicles' will be available to drive the visitors I to the oil bores at Moturoa,, and advantage will be taken to inspect the harbor works. Upon the return to town, the party will be entertained at afternoon tea at the Kia Ora tea-rooms, and then, after visits to places of interest, the official part of the business will be over, the Parliamentarians being free to follow the bent of their OWI desires for the rest of the day. *