PETROLEUM STRUCK.
WHILE BORING FOR WATER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Sight The Kaikoura correspondent of the Press telegraphs,: "Whilst Sortie Bfos. were boring for water at the Farmers' Co-op. sheepyards they struck Petroleum at a depth of 60 feet, "the gas and flames from which destroyed the derrick and gear. All efforts to smother the flow were unavailing, and the flames are still as fierce as ever. Petroleum has been discovered on other parts of the coast, but no effort has been made to utilise it. The site of the present bore is a mile from the Kaikoura post office."
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19190312.2.53
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 12 March 1919, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
101PETROLEUM STRUCK. Taranaki Daily News, 12 March 1919, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.