SEARCH FOR OIL
(P.A.) .AUCKLAND, Sept. 25. Referring to the search for oil. in New Zealand the Minister of Mines (Mr. Webb) said that two of the largest and most modern drilling plants in the world started operations this week, one at Cape Terrace, near Kumara, South Island, and the other at Mt. Stewart, in the Manawatu district. Both were being operated by the Superior Oil Co. 'A third large drill was expected to begin boring in a fortnight in the Rangitikei district, near Marton.
Mr. Webb said that the New Zealand Petroleum Company's bore at Devon, near New Plymouth, was down 6000 feet. At Midhirst the Taranaki company had drilled 11,000 feet, the deepest bore in the Southern. Hemisphere, but the well proved dry. "We have some of the best drilling experts in the world operating in the Dominion," the Minister added.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 76, 26 September 1942, Page 8
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143SEARCH FOR OIL Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 76, 26 September 1942, Page 8
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