GISBORNE OIL WORKS.
[BY TELEGBAPH.-7-OWN CORRESPONDENT.] / Gisborne, Friday. . The chairman. of the \ Gisborne Oil. Company received advice to-day from i Mr. Young, manager of the works at "Waitangi, that he started boring yesterday | with the second plant recently obtained from Tafa- ! naki for the purpose of sinking, a shallow depth well, with the object of securing a supply of oil fuel from, the 665 ft strata,' at which petroleum was J tapped \in a th« first well put down. "The \ new bore is - Bin in diameter. '..,'■•, ■ $*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14751, 5 August 1911, Page 7
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