GAS PHENOMENON.
WELL-BORER'S "STRIKE.''
ON A WAIHOU FARM
i While boring a well On the property [of Mr. L. C. Claude, on the Waihou road, yesterday. Mr. H. F. Warner, a well-borer, of Te Aroha, had an unusual experience, and one of which, in his long "experience he has seen the parallel, when he tapped what must* have been a gas seam in the ground. . . Mr. Warner had gone down about 19ft. when he was suddenly greeted by a rumbling and a murmuring front the foot of the pine. It was evident that it was not water; and then it dawned on him that there was a distinct smell of gas coming from th\e pipe. Then he and Mr 1 . Claude decided to try it out and put a match to the mouth of the pine. Immediately tiie gas coming from the' pipe burst into a white flame of intense heat and nearly a foot in length. They allowed this to burn for nearly ah hour, during which time the flame never wavered. Then Mr. Warner struck the water stream sought. An explanation of this phenomenon is that what was struck was a seam of a type of carbon gas produced by decaying vegetable matter. It is the quantity that is remarkable, and . it would he interesting to know how long it would have burned.
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Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17320, 7 January 1928, Page 5
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225GAS PHENOMENON. Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17320, 7 January 1928, Page 5
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