SEISMIC SURVEY
THE SEARCH FOR OIL (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, March 20. A seismic* survey of Taranaki, the third major attack in the New Zealand Petroleum Company's intensive search for oil in the province, will begin on Wednesday near Lepperton. The work will be done by a party of 15 men, including seven technical experts, equipped with four truck loads of the latest portable equipment. The leader of the party, Mr. R. C. Clark, who has been making advance preparations, has been joined by six American technicians and the equipment and trucks, including a long derrick for a portable drill, are expected to arrive at New Plymouth tomorrow. The seven technicians will be supplemented by three men transferred from the company's operations elsewhere in New Zealand and by five men recruited in Taranaki.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 67, 21 March 1939, Page 17
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134SEISMIC SURVEY Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 67, 21 March 1939, Page 17
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