OIL BORING
EQUIPMENT FOR TARANAKI. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, April 12. About 280 tons of general oil boring equipment, valued at £lOO,OOO, arrived from the United States by the Mariposa for use at the New Zealand Petroleum Company’s new drilling site at Midhurst, Central Taranaki. Much of the equipment comprised heavy machinery and it was necessary to use the harbour board’s floating crane to remove it from the ship’s hold. The equipment will take about two months to assemble at Midhurst, after which it is hoped to make an early start with the boring. A staff and a certain amount of equipment are already at Midhurst.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1940, Page 9
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