OILWELLS IN BRITAIN.
LOBI) NORTHCTJFFE'S MISSTOX. The Government lias taken all rights to bore for petroleum in Britain, hut will ■lease out the work and give royalties to '■he landowners. Mr. Walter Long, introducing a Bill for the purpose on August 15, referred to our dependence on imported oil, and 1 5-aid that Lord Jfortlicliffe, who went to the United States in connection with this very imporant oil question, had given hiir. invaluable assistance. A committee ha? been advised that it is quite probable ffiat oil exists' in parts of this country, but, being liquid, it moves under the surface, and therefore it is not easy, of location. The report that a valuable petroleum Held has been discovered in the United Kingdom will explain Mr. Walter Long s Bill. The object is to prevent wild-cat schemes of exploitation and the waste of oil by unscientific methods of development.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1917, Page 7
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148OILWELLS IN BRITAIN. Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1917, Page 7
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