PETROLEUM WELLS.
BIG DISCOVERT IN NEW GUINEA. Received April 30, 5.5 p.m. Melbourne, April 30. Reports are current of the discovery of great petroleum veils in the portion of New Guinea formerly held by the Germans. According to tfiese reports, parties of American and Australian experts, who visited the Pacific River in 1913 and 1914, discovered evidences of extensive oilfields, extending inland for forty miles. In one place oil was bubbling from the rocks, and the river was covered for miles with a heavy crude oil The discoveries were reported in 1914 to the Federal Government, wlijeh, however, up to the present, declines to make any announcement on the subject. —Aus. NZ. Cable Assoc. Received April 30, 10 30 p.m_ Melbourne, April 30. Mr. Glynn denies knowledge of the alleged discovery of large flows of petroleum in Papua, though he received a report eome 1 »ne ago that oil seepages had been found in New Guinea-
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1919, Page 5
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156PETROLEUM WELLS. Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1919, Page 5
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