SITUATION AT NEW PLYMOUTH.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 1 August 1913, Page 5

SITUATION AT NEW PLYMOUTH.

Mr J. D. Henry, technical adviser to the Taranaki Oil Wells, Ltd., is leaving Auckland for America, en route to Engjsiid, by the Niagara on Saturday. Regarding his future movements^ Mr Henry informed a Dominion representative that they would be guided- entirely by events. If a good strike of oil is made at New Plymouth within the next two months, he would return to New Zealand at once, but if all the boring that was now being done proved ineffective there would be nothing to induce him to return. Mr Hemy frankly rogards the present as critical in flip history of the oil industry. A crood deal of effort was hexnz made at tlie present tiTne to tap oil flows, and whevf one oompmiy could secure •500.000 bnrrrls i{ was reasonable for anvoiiß to V-liovo that 500,000,000 bar. rclb could bo >G';urcrl.