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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1954Vol. XXV, No. 2

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Oil Search in N. Caledonia

A“ USTRALIAN drillers are search ing for oil 'at Gouraro, not far from Bourail, the second largest jbwn on New Caledonia, and now the largest agricultural centre in the colony. |The drilling site, chosen near the sea, provides good indications of the iresence of oil. Four wells will be junk, each to a depth of nearly

r The technician in charge, M. ’omeyrol, has stated that if oil was lot found by drilling, geophysicists rould be engaged to make investiga tions.