At a meeting*of_the Inglewood Oilboring Campany,|a" shareholder stated that he estimated that about £500,000, in ''very round figures" had been sunk in oil-bores in Taranaki and in prospecting for oil. Boring for oil was started in Taranaki about 1862, and the Government Geological Department was established Jabout 1868, yet a geological survey of Taranaki had never yet been made by ttfe Government. As a matter of fa,et, the first oil-bore sunk in Tarana'st was? sank at Moturoa in 1866,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3058, 1 December 1908, Page 5
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79Page 5 Advertisements Column 6 Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3058, 1 December 1908, Page 5
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