SEISMIC SURVEY
TARANAKI OPERATIONS
(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.")
NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day.
To overcome difficulties , caused by the crumbling nature of the Taranaki ground conditions the New Zealand Petroleum Company's seismic survey party has ordered 1000 ft of .3in diameter piping with which line holes can be bored for seismographical .observations. Holes drilled by the party's portable drill through patches of gravel and sand have become choked before the shooting gang has been able to fire charges of explosives whose echoes actuate seismographs and give the data sought by the survey party. The party is still carrying out experimental operations a few miles east of Stratford. The future programme is indefinite.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 11
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