PETROLEUM.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 1352, 15 June 1907, Page 2

PETROLEUM.

Fully eighty tons of casing has been landed at the railway station during the past week, affording occupation for quite a number of carters to take it to the various bores. " •"" ' "" The balance of the Taranaki Oil and Freehold Company's machinery — about 60 tons — was landed this week from the Pateena and Corinna. The material is now being carted out from the railway yards. Boring continues at the Company's property on Carrington Road. The drill is piercing very hard conglomerate.

The Examiner says that a couple of A»*oodville residents, in company with a gentleman from New Plymouth, procured some samples of what appears to he* oil on the surface of some water, near the Mangapapa Bridge. The New Plymouth gentleman, who is a bit of an ex-, pert in these matters, thinks there is -a pretty good indication of oil being present in the ground round about there. He has taken samples to New Plymouth vo be tested.