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TARANAKI OILFIELD.
ANOTHER "BLOW-OUT."
BY TELEGRAPH—PEESS ASSOCIATION,
NEW PLYMOUTH, April 6. This afternoon No. 5 bore at Moturoa showed great and very encouraging activity, there being two exceptionally violent' blow-puts during the afternoon at a depth of about 1500 ft. There was no timfc to withdraw the,boring tools, which were hurled out of the casing with terrible' force, wrecking 2Qoft of steel cable. Debris spread over a quarter of a mile away, despite the derrick being roofed in.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXI, Issue LXII, 7 April 1911, Page 8
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78TARANAKI OILFIELD. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXI, Issue LXII, 7 April 1911, Page 8
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