AUSTRALIA'S FAULT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 11

AUSTRALIA'S FAULT

FAILURE IN OIL SEARCH

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CANBERRA, This Day.

Li a slaleraent dealing with the search for oil in Australia, the geological adviser lo the Commonwealth, Dr. Woolnough, says that there are good reasons for the failure of Australian oil search, of ■ which American interference, if it exists at all, is of microscopic importance. "We in Australia are so self-satisfied that we are averse to learning from anybody. We are so nationally vain that we tend to sit round talking of vast potentialities, instead of learning about other countries and what they have to teach us. As soon as we are willing to adopt American methods, so soon will oil be discovered in Australia."