NEW COAL BORE

Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1929, Page 2

NEW COAL BORE

OTAGO WATER DIVINER AS DIRECTOR.

DUNEDIN, April p

A South Otago correspondent of the Otago “Daily Times” writes as follows:

“ Some local interest has been aroused in a company now in course of formation to he known as the Mosley Prospecting Company, which has tor its object prospecting for coal on a property at Pukerau of 1,100 acres owned bv Mr Stanley Edwards. Mr John Mosley, of Stirling, who has gained considerable fame as a diviner of water supplies and also ol mineral strata, is a director of the company, which has been formed directly as an outcome of his views on the subject of hidden wealth. Mr Mosley has positively asserted on many occasions and after repeated tests that there exists on the Pukerau property a large bituminous coalfield extending over practically the whole of the property at a depth of probably * under 000 feet. It is now proposed to put down a bore at 1 ukerau at a spot to be selected by Mr Mosley, using a drilling plant at present under offer on loan by the Government Mines Department.

“ The result will he awaited with interest on account of Mr Mosley’s undoubted reputation as a water diviner and because of the scepticism with which most people are inclined to regard anything out of their ken. Mi Mosley has always held that Otag* possessed immense stores of coal sealed up under her sandstone belts, and that Otago and Southland had probably more mineral wealth than all the lest of New Zealand. He has also given it as his belief, founded on experiments with the divining rod, attuned to detect the presence of minerals, that his home province possessed subterranean oilfields big enough to excite the envy of John T). Rockefeller.”