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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVII, Issue 14, 6 October 1906, Page 30

“There was a friend, of mine round Inglewood,” remarked the Taranaki man, “who once joyfully sought, an oil expert, declaring that‘he had struck this fluid on his land. He brought, a sample in a bottle. Now, evidently my friend had lieen in a great hurry, hastily grabbing the first bottle at hand, for when the chemist hud duly analysed the sample submitted he sent the following telegraphic report :‘Find no trace of oil. You have struck paregoric.’ ”