TARANAKI OIL FIELDS.
NEW PLYMOUTH, Last \igh*. This afternoon No. 5 bore at Mr.tu roa showed a great and very oncour lining activity, tjiere being two exceptionally violent blow-outs 'lnr:n:. the afternoon, at a depth of about *>oH'r There was no'time to withdraw ilie boring tools, which were hurled out of the casing with terrific for;?, wrecking 200 ft of steel cables. The ■"dais was spread a quarter of n m'ii: away, despite the derrick bei..g roo r e 1 .n.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10207, 7 April 1911, Page 5
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81TARANAKI OIL FIELDS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10207, 7 April 1911, Page 5
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