TARANAKI OILFIELDS
DRILLING PLANTS ON GROUND. WORK TO COMMENCE IMMEDIATELY. ; Ear .Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, December 10. Dr. Clapp, consulting geologist to the Taranaki Oilfields, Ltd-, interviewed stated that drilling twul commence at Tarata . immediately, and preparations have been made to drill on the foreshore close to highwater mark at Moturoa within tßer shelter of the breakwater. Geologists will make an extensive survey preparatory to locating the site of the third bore. Mr. W. Osborne, geologist, of- Sydney University, has joined the staff, and another.is to be appointed. -Two complete drilling plants are’ already on tbe ground.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12009, 11 December 1924, Page 4
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