TARANAKI OIL FIELDS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
GISBORNE, This Day. Taranaki Oil Fields report: "Gisborne No. 2 well drilled to 3250 ft, the last 50ft very hard, limey sandstone. Gas now smells strongly of petroleum. Small quantity of water making below 3200 ft; now endeavouring to mud this off."
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 5, 7 January 1930, Page 12
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48TARANAKI OIL FIELDS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 5, 7 January 1930, Page 12
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