TARANAKI OILFIELDS.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBORNE, Tuesday. Taranaki Oilfields report for the week ended March 22:—Gisborne No. 2 well: Pumped mud into formation and succeeded in holding caving ground above 3850 ft. Side tracked and lost tools and drilled to 3910 ft in soft sand and aliale, which also shows tendency to cave. Sample of sand in return mud shows trace of oil. Now endeavouring to obtain- sample of this ground 'with core 'barrel.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 72, 26 March 1930, Page 4
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