NEW OILFIELD.
DEPOSITS IN MACEDONIA By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Aug. 5, 5.5 p.m. London, Aug. 4. Mr. George Lacon, formerly of Christchurch, and subsequently interested in mining on the West Coast, and who represented the New Zealand Government on an agricultural trade misison to the Argentine before the war, has arrived in London. He informed the Australian Press Association that while quartered at Salonika with the British forces during the war he discovered evidences of oil deposits, and since demobilisation he has explored Macedonia on behalf of the Anglo-Persian Company and succeeded in obtaining concessions from the Greek Government in strenuous competition with the Standard and Shell Companies. Mr. Lacon believes Macedonia will become a new and important source of supply.—Au§.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1922, Page 5
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123NEW OILFIELD. Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1922, Page 5
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