DRILLING RESUMED
SEARCH FOR OIL ON THE EAST COAST DEVIATION NOT SO SERIOUS (By Telegraph.—Press Association) GISBORNE. Friday The New Zealand Petroleum Company advises the drilling at the Totangi No. 1 bore is again in progress. The drill has reached 2100 feet. The deviation from the vertical is not. pronounced, being 2* degrees only, a figure which is considered quite satisfactory. Furtheirnorc, no increase in the deviation has been observed throughout the last 80ft of drilling. Directional drilling equipment being imported from America is due at Auckland to-day and will be employed as necessary to prevent further deviation in this or other wells to be drilled.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20733, 17 February 1939, Page 8
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106DRILLING RESUMED Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20733, 17 February 1939, Page 8
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