As the earth spins, under the pull of the moon and the sun, the water is always being moved about. When it is pulled to one part of the earth, making high tide there, it is being drawn away from somewhere else, and that is where the tide is ebbing. No tide rises but some other tide falls.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1941, Page 2
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