CISBORNE PETROLEUM.
Press Association.) GISBORNE, April 5. At a meeting of shareholders of the Gisborne Oil Company it was reported that the directors, had difficulty in. securing the necessary 9 and 7-mch. piping to get the present bore down to 2000 'feet. _ The directors recommended that in the meantime the machinery be shifted,, and an attempt be made to secure a shallow well at an adjacent site. In the present bore oil was struck at 655 feet, but with only one foot of oil sand. A resolution was passed that the directors be empowered to put down a further bore as defined by Dr Bell, and that the necessary steps be taken to procure the additional piping required to put down the deep well at the present bore.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9182, 5 April 1910, Page 5
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128CISBORNE PETROLEUM. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9182, 5 April 1910, Page 5
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