HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR IS DUE.
[To The EditoT.Z
Sir. —It is a pity that your special reporter to the opening of the oil bore had not taken a littlo more trouble to get his information correct.' There is no credit, due whatever to Mr W. 13. Matheson for the start of the oil boring. Mr John Popple-well is the man who did start the ball rolling, and Geologist Fry is the man who said "look for oil, not coal." If it had not been for John Popplewell, there would have been no Cassiii, no Whiteley, and no Hermann and Weger for,this part. Their energies would have been spent elsewhere. —I am, ote., '
ROBERT PITCAITHLY Tawataia, Novmber 30; 1912.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 3 December 1912, Page 6
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119HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR IS DUE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 3 December 1912, Page 6
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