SEARCH FOR OIL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23058, 8 June 1938, Page 12

SEARCH FOR OIL

EAST COAST AREA ASSEMBLING PLANT QUANTITY. ON SIAEIPOSA! MORE OFFICIALS ComG§|§ About 1500 tons of plant and macbin- : ery to be used by the New Zealand V Petroleum Company, Limited, in iti: . oil boring operations near Gisborne, will reach Auckland by the Mariposa'' from San Francisco on Friday and bythe Trchata from New Yovk on June' . r 28, according to a statement made last .;: night by Mr. J. H. Lindon, of Welling, ton, general manager for New Zealand. of the Vacuum Oil Company Propriet--ary, Limited, one of the shareholding companies in the New Zealand Petroleum Company. Mr. Lindon added that drilling would probably commence jj within about two months of the arrival of the equipment at the site of boring operations, 29 miles from Gisborne. ',7 / ' In addition to the four American oil § experts who, as stated in a Cablegram yesterday, would arrive from Sydney by the Niagara on Monday, three other officers of the new company would arrive by the Mariposa, said Mr. Lindon. These included Mr. W. S. Simpson, the accountant-manager, who had had considerable service with the Vacuum Oil Company in Mexico. The other two, Messrs. A. Weymouth and C. S. Thorn, were geologists with experience in Californian fields. In charge of the entire operations would be Mr. Hobart La Mar, the leader of the party coming by tho Niagara. v< ~ The construction of a camp at Rere near the site of the bore and the building of an access road were now under ■way, Mr. Lindon added. The equipment from America, including bore casing, pumps, engines and piping, would be taken to Gisborne by coastal steamer and the drilling plant would take about a month to six weeks to erect. Drilling would commence shortly afterward. Mr. Lindon, who arrived from Wellington yesterday, will remain in Auckland to meet the Members of the new company's staff.