OIL BORING OPERATIONS. ) A large photograph of the second rif erected at Ormond, about 10 'miles fron Gisborne, by the N.Z. Oilfields, Ltd. appears in the last issue of the “Auck land Weekly.” The derrick is 74 feein height, and the machinery and! plan' is arranged on the Canadian system capable to bore 14 inch to 4 inch dia meter holes. This is the second instal lation of these boring plants erected b the same company in the Gisborne dis trict, and they are considered the tw largest and most complete outfits i the Dominion. A photograph of tb No. 1 bore, which is at Totangi, abot 16 miles from Gisborne, appealed in tli “Auckland Weekly” of July 27th lasi
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3338, 3 October 1911, Page 5
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