WHEREABOUTS OF OIL
| NO HIDING OF KNOWLEDGE AMBITION OF DRILLERS ! i [by Ti:r,i:<;itAPir —own coiuikspoxhkxt] WAIPUKURAU, Thursday j "Drillers are very wrath at rc- ! pea tod suggestions that companies •know where oil is but have it bottled ! up." -Mr. I). Lister, of the Vacuum Oil Com pan v. told an audience of fanners lat Walpukuran, in an _ address on I petroleum. "Believe me," he added, j "to strike oil is the one .ambition of i their lives. If New Zealand Petroleum : Products could supply the local need. : and may ho leave a little over lor oxi port, it would probably be possible to I ease the restriction on some other articles." Work at Totangi, Mr. Lister said, had been foiled by technical obstacles relating to the geological formation, which 'made effective drilling almost impossible, but lm thought it quite likely oil would be found in that district, possibly at -Morere.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23617, 29 March 1940, Page 11
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