WRING FOR OIL.
[liY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION'. Greymoutu, Thursday. A letter from the manager conducting the boring for the Kotuku Oil Syndicate states that the bore is down 50ft, cutting at 12ft a foot of sand saturated with petroleum; then 16ft of marine bottom; next 24ft in sand and gravel, also saturated with oil; and the pressure from below is forcing it in a greasy mass up the pipe. During drilling operations oil accumulates "i the bore between the drilling shifts. Jen gallons have now been collected in drums. Visitors to the property to-day were highly impressed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12271, 15 May 1903, Page 5
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