SEISMIC SURVEY PLANS
OIL-BEARING STRATA QUEST IN TARANAKI (I'cr Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. A seismic survey of Taranaki, the third major attack in the New Zealand Petroleum Company's intensive search lor oil in the province, will begin en Wednesday near Leppcrton. The work will be done by a party of 15 men, including seven technical experts equipped with four truck loads of the latest portable equipment. The leader of the party, Mr. R. C. Clark, who has been rnakin advance preparations, has been joined by six American technicians, and the equipment trucks, including a long derrick for the portable drill, are expected to arrive at New Plymouth tc-morrow. The seven technicians will be supplemented by three men transferred from the company's operations elsewhere in Ne w Zealand and by five men recruited in Taranaki.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 21 March 1939, Page 16
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