PETROL SUPPLIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 April 1920, Page 5

PETROL SUPPLIES.

PROSPECTIVE BORES SUGGESTED. Masterton, April 2(1. The soaring price of petrol, and the ever-increasing demands for its use on farms, lias led the Wairarapa branch of the Farmers' Union to adopt the following remit to lie submitted to the forth-, coming Farmers' Union Provincial Conference: "That this conference wishes to urge on the Government the desirability of obtaining the best independent expert advice as to the locality in which to bore for petrol, and considers it advisable to put down some purely prospective bores to a deptli of five or six thousand feet, thus further testing the important question in a more economical way than hitherto- The significance of the above remit is further emphasised by the. following explanatory statement which is attached: "If the theory is trne that these islands are' the higher altitudes of a sunken continent, such deposits are likely to be found at a greater depth than usual; the Taranaki supply having been broken, and partly liberated by the volcanic disturbances of Mount Egmont, it is probable that inland, in an area between Eketahuna and a point on the East Coast, neav Castlepoint, large payable deposits may be found sealed up by the papa strata at considerable depths. The methods hitherto adopted by private companies —putting down expensive heavy working bores and making arrangements with landowners, etc.,—have not proved satisfactory."