New Zealand Petroleum.
New Plymouth, Tuesday. 'Mr Samuel, M.H.R., having been TfqitH&tfd l>y Sir Julim Vogol to obtain for him a couple of gnl oris 01 erode petroleum from IbeTunmiki district for railing |'iirjiospn, got two mi'iv to collect that quantity from drippings which ooze from thd soil iiour tlie barbor works. The two .lien collected yesterday owa gallon hetween hii>h and low watermark. On removing some of the bouMns ibey found the oil in quantities on the top of tbo water in large hole?. Some of the gullies seven or eight miles from town tire full of petroleum, and no wells can be sunk io that direction,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3347, 29 October 1889, Page 2
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108New Zealand Petroleum. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3347, 29 October 1889, Page 2
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