TREASURE TROVE
DRUM OF PETROL DUG UP The modern equivalent, in these days of petrol restrictions ) to unearthing of a pirate's chest doubloons, pieces of eighty and jewelv studded crucifixes, was the digging up near a dredge cut on Gow's road of a small drum an petrol, which had evidently been buried there for eight or ten years at least. The drum was an old nine gallon Rangitaiki Plains one and it contained about eight gallons of petrol, in good condition. It is hardly likely that like whisk}' petrol improves by keeping, but the discoverer who, used the find in his car says that K is of a better quality than the pre-sent-day fuel, and delivers much more power. Possibly the petrol was brought there for use on a and it was buried with spoil. At all events it was a useful find.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 67, 27 September 1939, Page 4
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