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  1. BIG OIL MERGER.
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Tuesday 12 June 1928 p 4 Article
    ... BIG OIL MERGER. Interesting announcements have just been made of the merging of the Texas ... made. The Californian Petroleum Company marketed throughout the Pacific Coast Territory and also in ... wide scope and efficiency of Texaco products. The consolidation of the two corporations will bring ... 188 words
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  2. When Petroleum Was a Nuisance OUR GRANDFATHERS FEARED IT.
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Saturday 3 March 1928 p 1 Article
    ... brine and struck oil, much to his chagrin. For the next forty yeais petroleum, as a by-product of ... and refining of petroleum by-products, eueh as gaso line, kerosene, light and heavy engine oils, and ... stej:,ia boiler in general construction. Where water fills the steam boiler crude oil fills the tanks ... 1130 words
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  3. THE DANGERS OF METHYLATED SPIRITS.
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Saturday 12 March 1921 p 3 Article
    ... wonderful products of nature in the markets of the -scorld. This petroleum for burning Lh lamps was ... oil which was used for burn ing 'hr lamps was well known as petro leum. The oil wells of America had ... we can under fttaafi *it ? w-at£ impossible, from want of knowledge, that the product could not ... 679 words
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  4. INCREASED PETROL DUTIES. PROTEST TO PRIME MINISTER.
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Thursday 22 July 1926 p 1 Article
    ... Limited, H. C Pan [nifex, H. C. Sleigh, Texas Co. of Aus tralia, Xtd., United Oil Products Coy., ... INCREASED PETROL DUTIES. PROTEST TO PRIME MINISTER. Recently the oil companies of the Commonwealth ... of petrol- ' euni into the Commonwealth of Austra- ; lia, excepting the Commonwealth Oil Refineries, ... 649 words
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  5. HISTORY MAKING. PETROLEUM AS A FACTOR.
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Thursday 19 January 1928 p 2 Article
    ... HISTORY MAKING. PETROLEUM . PETKOLEUM AS A FACTOR. ; j-#| ? '*';.'--r'SE One of the most ... jjj^^l piays a large part. The di^^^^^^^H petroleum, and its clmct «^^^^^^^^^| tivitics of ;aankind has ... advaiiGiag|i forces of petroleum, marches die 'sa^t^ organisation known -lie world «rer asZ3 'SheU.' When a ... 964 words
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  6. PIONEER MOTORIST AND CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY. MR. E. E. WAGSTAFF RETIRES.
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Saturday 26 March 1927 p 4 Article Illustrated
    ... Commonwealth. Mr. Wag staff, wha has been associated with the petroleum trade .-.ince 1S89, was ap ? :.w.,,l mormnrnr fnv Australia for Tin British Imperial Oil Company in 1J-O4. At that time the principal product handled by tho company was kerosene. Motoring was then in its early infancy, and there was only ... 434 words
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  7. QUARRY SURPLUS STONE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD ROADS
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Thursday 21 April 1921 p 2 Article
    ... that a further reduction of 1/- per case in the selling price ol all grades of Plume petroleum ... the second reduc tion of 1/- per case ihat has been an iiouneed on these products within the last ... 392 words
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  8. VACUUM OIL COMPANY. AT THE HALF CENTURY
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Thursday 12 July 1917 p 1 Article
    ... mineral oil industry. When it was founded the commercial opf portunities 61 petroleum oil were not ... burning oil, and that out of the residual product heavy mineral oils could he made, of, ;such value ... uniform, serviceable and wholly dependable lubricating oil made from petroleum. It is a statement of ... 1141 words
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  9. THE OIL INDUSTRY. THE BRITISH IMPERIAL CO.
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Thursday 17 June 1926 p 4 Article
    ... but is not completed amounts ' about £2,500,000. This includes 23 large i storage tanks, 87 smaller storage tanks, [ ten miles of pipe line, 300 road wag | gons, 77 rail waggons, three miles of I ... storage of petro leum products in bulk in every State of the Commonwealth will give Austra lia a vital ... 742 words
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  10. MELBOURNE WHARF CONDITIONS. ALLEGER "GO SLOW" TACTICS. Melbourne, March 21.
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Tuesday 22 March 1927 p 3 Article
    ... has been associated with the petroleum trade since 1889, was ap pointed manager for Australia for The British Imperial Oil Company in 1904. At that time the principal product handled by the company ... Australia and Now Zealand. Large installations for the bulk handling of Shell products are now ... 496 words
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  11. THE MAKING OF AIRCRAFT AN AEROPLANE'S CONSTITUENTS
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Thursday 21 November 1918 p 1 Article
    ... the aircraft section of the Bri tish Scientific Products. Exhibi tion, which openea in London re ... perfectly made aeroplane is no use without motive powefr, (and' two sorte of oil are' requited to make it fly. PeteiB'eiim is ne cessary to produce the volatile and explosive petrol, and petroleum ... 449 words
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  12. KIMBERLEY OIL EXPLORATION. ENCOURAGING DISCOVERIES DETAILED SURVEY NEEDED.
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Saturday 15 October 1921 p 3 Article
    ... KIMBERLEY OIL EXPLORATION. ENCOURAGING DISCOVERIES. DETAILED SURVEY NEEDED. 'The discovery is certainly the most important surface indication of mineral oil residue which has been found in the ... beds. ' '(5) That there is every reason to believe it has come in the form of mineral oil fr»m uncxposed ... 1119 words
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  13. MR BRYAN ON THE POT AND KETTLE HOME TRUTHS FOR U.S. GRUMBLERS. "WHAT WE DID, BRITAIN DOING"
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Tuesday 16 March 1915 p 4 Article
    ... petroleum contraband, Mr. Bryan states that his Government has not yet concluded that petrol is impro perly treated 'in view of the absolute necessity of such products to the use of submarines, aeroplanes ... 863 words
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  14. THE POULTRY INDUSTRY. PESTS AND THEIR ERADICATION. ADVICE BY GOVERNMENT EXPERTS.
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Thursday 9 February 1922 p 1 Article
    ... it is that poultry products arc more extensively used now than was the case in byegone days. The ... markets of the world, our export trade in poultry products must, in the future, reach huge dimensions. ... England and America, where the demand for this product is unlimit ed. For the first time in the ... 2756 words
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  15. Money From Oil.
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Thursday 2 August 1917 p 4 Article
    ... from oil, owe their fortunes to the mother oil, petroleum. By this it is meant thai petroleum is the ... substance. It is then run into huge tanks, where it is vaporized, the product of the process being coi lected. This product is petrol. The substance left in the tanks is vapor ised by the same ... 240 words
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    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Tuesday 6 December 1921 p 1 Article
    ... Australian price of 1/2J ! does not represent the difference in ! freight. The sources of petroleum ... from America. But Australia is more favorably situated in being close to ! the great oil fields in the ... of the oil octopus we should encourage and develop the production of power alco hol.' ... 232 words
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  17. LOCAL AND GENERAL
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Tuesday 31 December 1918 p 2 Article
    ... d's a agreeable. Petroleum Oil in England. - For nearly half a centSiry a sma't but ap preciable quantity of petroleum oil has been produced from shale in Scot land but hitherto no petroleum has been ... petroleum in crude liquid form existed in England, the boring having- st u?k petroleum at a depth ot 2410 ... 1123 words
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  18. WORLD'S OIL SUPPLIES.
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Thursday 6 April 1922 p 3 Article
    ... WORLD'S OIL SUPPLIES. The part the Anglo-Persian Oil Company pany played in furnishing the navy with supplies of oil during the war, and the increasing output of its wells in Persia, makes the ... participation in business enterprises. Still the need of the navy being assured of supplies of oil was ... 311 words
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  19. MUSIC, DRAMA, ART, &c.
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Friday 15 February 1907 p 6 Article
    ... scale of salary, for the next four years, for all provincial tours. She lias just co&n- pleted a very ... 'furthest south' record, and a mo tor-car is to be used. Large quantities of petroleum are to he found in Burmah. though tho pro duct is much inferior to American oil. ... 326 words
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  20. FROM MANY SOURCES.
    Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928) Saturday 29 March 1919 p 4 Article
    ... the Un ited States geological survey indi cate jfche quantity of (petroleum mar keted frcm oil wels and field storage tanks in the Untied States amounted, to 345 500,000 barrets, or a gain of about ... 892 words
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