SEARCH FOR OIL
SEISMIC SURVEY OF TARANAKI TECHNICIANS TO COMMENCE SHORTLY. I Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, March 20. A seismic survey of Taranaki, the third major attack in the New Zealand Petroleum Company's intensive search for oil in the province, will begin on Wednesday near Lepperton The work will be done by a party ol fifteen men. including seven technical experts equipped with four truck loads of the latest portable equipment. The leader of the party is Mr. R. C. Clark, who has been making advance preparations and has now been joined by six American technicians. Equipment trucks, including a Jong derrick portable drill, is expected to arrive at New Plymouth to-morrow. The seven technicians will be supplemented by three men transferred from the company's operations elsewhere in New Zealand and by five men recruited in Taranaki.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 68, 22 March 1939, Page 8
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138SEARCH FOR OIL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 68, 22 March 1939, Page 8
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