PETROLEUM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 150, 12 November 1912, Page 4

PETROLEUM.

Mr. Robertson, who has been engaged as one of the expert drillers of the Bonitlion Petroleum Company, has arrived in New Plymouth. There are about fifty men now employed on the petroleum field. It is expected that when things got under way properly the different companies operating in the district will be giving employment to many,'hundreds of men. After a delay of over three weeks in Wellington, the bulk of the final shipment of the refinery plant for the Taranaki (New Zealand) Oil Wells, Limited, Company, came t to hand yesterday. The rotary plant also arrived at the same 4ime. The huge tanks and still bottoms bulked very largely on the new railway siding at Moturoa, and lorries and expresses were having a busy time taking delivery of the plant as it came to hand. It would have gladdened the heart of the "Boosting Committee" to have been present and witnessed the provisional development of an industry that is already circulating a large gum weekly in New Plymouth on labor and material. A further shipment of .350 tons of material is now oil the water, and should arrive here next month. _ Although much of the material that arrived yesterday was of a heavy nature, no difficulty was experienced in handling it at the breakwater. To-day the staff will be busy in taking delivery of the balance of this first extensivo shipment.