OIL-BORING NEAR GISBORNE.
far TKLSOBAra — mcaa ahsooiatiojc.l OISBORNE, This Day. At a meeting of shareholders in the Gisborne OU Company it was reported that the directors had had difficulty in securing the necessary 9 and 7 inch piping to get the present bore down to 2000 feet. Ihe director? recommended that in the meantime the machinery be shifted and an attempt be made to secure a shallow well at an adjacent bite. In the present Lore oil was struck at 655 feet. A resolution was passed that the directors be empowered to put down a further bore in the anticline as defined by Dr. Bell near the seepage, and that necessary steps be taken to procure the additional piping required to put down a deep well at the present the.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 79, 5 April 1910, Page 71
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130OIL-BORING NEAR GISBORNE. Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 79, 5 April 1910, Page 71
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