GEOLOGIST SAYS THAT SEARCH FOR OIL HAS NOT BEEN ADEQUATE
Bentonite, Hawke’s Bay's latest mineral discovery, may be robbing the province of a more valuable product—oil. This possibility was pointed out by Dr. D. A. Brown, geological surveyor, who, at a meeting of the Napier Chamber of Commerce, outlined the nature of his work with Dr. J. T. Kingma in a geological survey of the Hawke’s Eay province. There was so much movement of earth over the slippery surface of the Bentonite that oil bores nut down in one day bad been snapped right off by the next, lie said. “Gas swings and the structure of the rocks led experts to 1 lie belief that there was oil along the Rest Coast," he said, but although bores were put clown, oil was not discovered in marketable quantities." The strata were so shattered that there' was a good chance that the oil had escaped, he added, but it would be wrong to say Ihrt a full and adequate testing for oil had been carried out.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22971, 14 June 1949, Page 4
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174GEOLOGIST SAYS THAT SEARCH FOR OIL HAS NOT BEEN ADEQUATE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22971, 14 June 1949, Page 4
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