SEEKING OIL.
SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS MADE. By Cable—Pre3s Association—Copyright. Australia!! nnd N.Z. Cablo AssociaLr.u MELBOURNE, March 27. During tho tariff debate in the House of Representatives, while dealing "with the item “crude oil,” Mr Walter Marks made serious allegations regarding what be claimed to bo American interference in attempts to find oil in the Lander and Roma bores (Queensland). He declared that the report from which he quoted was presented to the directors, showing that an expert who had been secured from America had admitted that lie took steps to get the drillers off the field, so that lie could obtain sole control. When lie did get control, lie blocked the bore and exploded a gelignite charge inside the casing. The report further stated that the expert’s reckless expenditure had cost tile company £.80,000. Furthermore it was alleged that documents found in his office showed that ho was sending geological information regarding the company’s doings to America, and had done everything possible to block the company’s work. The Company bad not taken criminal proceedings, and allowed the expert to return to America out of consideration for liis wife alone.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 29 March 1926, Page 9
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188SEEKING OIL. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 29 March 1926, Page 9
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