OIL FOR FUEL.
THE ADMIRALTY AND OIL. AUCKLAND THE NaVAL BASE. NEW ZEALAND SUPPLIES WANTED. The importance of the oil industry in Taranaki has been further emphasised by a visit to New Plymouth of Engineer Lieutenant H. Ponsonby Mackenzie, R.N., the Admiralty's coal insp^ector for Australasia, with headquarters at Westport. The visitor inspected the oilworks in company "with the chairman of the Advisory Board, Mr. C. Carter, and he subsequently expressed surprise ;at the extent of the development that had taken place during the past year. He appeared to bo greatly Impressed with She suitability of the oil for burnins; purposes. The gravity and flashpoint were right up to standard, and for naval fuel purposes the oil was excellent.
The Admiralty, be said, were keenly interested in the development of oil resources within the Empire, .and naturally were following the Taranaki operations with no little interest. Auckland wars being made a naval base, and provision for the storage for oil fuel would be made. Naturally the Admiralty were desirous of obtaining supplies in tho Dominion if they could be obtained.
Lieut. Mackenzie left" for Wellington on Saturday morning en route to Sydney.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 19897, 15 September 1913, Page 6
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192OIL FOR FUEL. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 19897, 15 September 1913, Page 6
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