WELLINGTON’S OIL TRADE
ANOTHER BIG BULK PLANT TANKER WHARF FOR PETONE Evidence of the rapidly growing oil trade of Wellington is supplied by the fact that the Texas Company (Australasia), Ltd., is about to erect a large plant on the industrial area at Petone for handling its motor spirit, lubricating oils, and other products in bulk. The installation will include large storage tanks and warehouses, and will be the fourth of its kind in and about Wellington, there being already two at Miramar and one at Kaiwarra. The Texas Company has taken over s>l acres of land in the Petone industrial area, and will spend some £50,000 on the installation, which is planned on the most up-to-date lines. The works will have a frontage of about '6OO feet on the new Seaview Road, which leads from Gracefield Road to the racecourse. The Texas Company has arranged with the Harbour Board to erect a special wharf, fitted with pipe lines for the discharge of its tankers at Petone, and the Railway Department will lay dojyn a special railway siding to the installation. The Texas Company controls a fleet of modern tankers, one of which has a deadweight carrying capacity of 19,000 tons, and is one of the largest ships of her type in the world.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 130, 26 February 1929, Page 12
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214WELLINGTON’S OIL TRADE Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 130, 26 February 1929, Page 12
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