DRILLING FOR OIL
PHILIPPINES QUEST FAVOURABLE PROSPECTS (Reed. Oct. 16, 2 p.m.) MANILA, Oct. 15. The President of the Philippines, Don Manuel Quezon, stated he had authorised the expenditure of 500,000 pesos to begin drilling for oil at Cebu and Bqndoc Peninsula. He said that a survey of those areas indicated the chances of finding oil were very favourable.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20379, 16 October 1940, Page 6
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