TARANAKI OIL FIELDS
The Taranaki Oil Fields, Ltd., report that the drill at Tarata is sunk to 4140 feet in shale. At Moturoa the o(incli diameter casing lias been drawn. The hole is apparently slightly out ot line, owing to the presence of a boulder a few feet above the bottom. It is now being straightened preparatory to the casing again being run.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 88, 8 January 1926, Page 10
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63TARANAKI OIL FIELDS Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 88, 8 January 1926, Page 10
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