TARANAKI OIL.
. - BORING PLANT STARTED. i NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday. The new rotary oil-boring plant, the i first south of the line, was opened to-day, - and -bored 30ft in the first hour, as f against 12ft per hour with the old per- ; cussion drills. The plant represents the —test deyelop--1 ment in American oil-boring machinery, s The refinery is well under way, and it is i expected will be completed by AprThere is already over half-a-nullion gal- » lons of oil stored in the underground t tanks, and the wells are flowing as freely as ever. After to-day's experience, the i future of the oil industry in Taranaki f seems to be assured
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 303, 19 December 1912, Page 5
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111TARANAKI OIL. Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 303, 19 December 1912, Page 5
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