CASE OIL IN NEW ZEALAND.
A NEW DEVELOPMENT. (Auckland Star Special.) A large British oil importing firm has secured a license from the Wellington City Council to lay oil conduits beneath the street at Miramar, so that oils other than the crude fuel oils can be brought to New Zealand in bulk, to be packed for distribution. The magnitude of the new industry is evident from the fact that something like £300,000 wifi be represented in storage tanks ,apd plant by the time the works are completed, and that probably 300 men will be permanently employed in tin-making, case-making, etc. Practically everything but the oils themselves will be manufactured locally, the material being imported in bulk and landed at a new wharf. Cases will come out cut to size, but not made up, from the company’s own forests 1 overseas, and will be shnnmed in case shape in a special plant in the time an average man would take sorting out nails. The opening of this new industry will not mean that shipments of case oil will cease to come to New Zealand, for there are other great mineral oil companies operating on this market.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 September 1924, Page 7
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