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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 499, 14 January 1949, Page 11

DD RY sand, rock-mountains and dead-lands as far as the eye can see: That was the picture con- fronting the British oil prospectors in Iran i 1901. Today water dows through rich felds Of wheat and barley. Dairy farms, poultry farms and acres of veget- able land now thrive where once there was only desert and want This change has been brought about by the far-seeing policy of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company the producers of BP Petrol With the discovery of oil in Iran came many problems perhaps the greatest of these was feeding the growing army of workers. 3ee 22 7eee Dr 31 4 0z3 makes the desert bloom The oil which poured from the ever-increasing number of wells helped to pay 3f for modern irrigation and drainage schemes, and today over 65,000 of the Anglo Jranian Company" 8 employees are fed, clothed, housed and educated in the Company' 8 areas: This is only part of the story behind BP Che story of this enterprise which gave the world its biggest oil refinery which gave the Britieh Empire its greatest single source of petroleum products i8 interwoven-into the modern story of the British Empire itself: BP products, which are already distributed in Britain, Australia, Bpi0 South Africa and India, are now coming to New Zealand: From oil-beld to refinery and Pexnot to the tankers which will bring it here, BP: Petrol 3 a product of British enterprise: THE BRITISH PETROLEUM COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND LIMITED F0 0 D , CLothin0 Far M a nd Tbainin6 4u= A