OIL AS LIKELY AT EVA
AS NECTARINES ON A GUM TREE.
(UHIIIB PKISB ASSOCUTIOH.—COHRISBT.)
- PERTH, 31st January. In the Lake Eva oQ case, John Thompson was committed for trial on a charge of false representations. The State mining engineer gave evidence that -there ■was as much chance of finding oil at the place where it was reported as being discovered as finding, nectarines on a gam tree. .' . .
A previous massage stated that a charge was preferred against a man, John Thompson, of conspiracy with one, Robert Rothkell, to defraud the public with a "fake" oil.well. Rothkell later tried to secure a prospecting area from the Mines Department at Adelaide. A bore was .put down at Lake Eva, and a dug-out made in which a tank of oil was placed, to which a pipe was attached.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 27, 1 February 1924, Page 7
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135OIL AS LIKELY AT EVA Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 27, 1 February 1924, Page 7
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