OIL-BORING NEAR GISBORNE.
I By Telegraph—Press Association. GISBORNE, April 5. At a meeting of shareholders in the Gisborne Oil Company it was reported that the directors had had difficulty in becaring the necessary nine and seven inch piping to get the present bore down to two thousand feet. The directors recommended that in the meantime the machinery be shifted~and an attempt be made to secure a shallow well at an adjacent site. In the present bore oil was struck at 635 feet. A resolution was passed that the directors be empowered to put down a further bore in the anticline as defined by Dr. Bell near the seepage, and that necessary steps be taken to procure the additional piping required to put down_a_deep well at the present site.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10011, 6 April 1910, Page 5
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128OIL-BORING NEAR GISBORNE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10011, 6 April 1910, Page 5
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