GOOD PROGRESS MADE
OIL BORING NEAR GISBORNE By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, November 1. “Progress with the oil-boring operations near Gisborne has been wonderfully good, and it should not ba long now before we have a definite idea of the possibilities of finding a flow of oil in this country,” said the Hon. P. C. Webb (Minister of Mines) in an interview to-day. Mr Webb said that the presence or otherwise of a flow of oil would be proved before Christmas. Mr Webb, who has been unwell recently, will go to the site of the boring operations after he has had a rest, and he will watch the first few hundred feet of steel casing being placed in position. Preparations have proceeded rapidly so far, but the rate of progress with the boring will depend on the type of ground that is encountered. “It should not be long now before we have established or disproved the existence of a flow of oil in New Zealand in payable quantities,” said Mr Webb.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21183, 2 November 1938, Page 6
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