"OIL" IN SOUTH AFRICA.
STATEMENT BY AN EXPERT. 'By Cable—Press Association—Copyrignt London, January 2. Efforts having lately been made to float worthless South African "oil" companies, the Union Government engaged Mr. Cummingham Craig to report upon oil prospects at the Cape. Mr. Craig* •agrees in the exposure of the prospectuses of so-called South African oil companies. He travelled many thousands ■of miles in the •Union, and says: "The Only chances of commercial finds in South Africa are in places which nobody bitkerto has tried or thought abont; 4KB places about which most has been written and around which all the talk bag centred are absolutely hopeless. You can say that I had to visit a great Hianv places which I knew, before spending V few weeks in the country, could not have any chance at all. But I paid maay such visits simply to satisfy pcoDle that I had ben there to examine |he ground. I had to visit practically every place where people had imagined ,01l had been struck."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 202, 24 February 1914, Page 5
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170"OIL" IN SOUTH AFRICA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 202, 24 February 1914, Page 5
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