WATER-DIVINING
| Sir-The writer of your article on water-divining must be biased. He sought to prove the negative case. My father was a well-borer for many years ‘and always used a water-diviner before he put down bores. No water, no pay, was the contract. If one put down a bore anywhere one would only once in a hundred times strike water, but there was never a failure once the waterdiviner had located the spot. In ome instance, one local body refused to have a diviner as they said it was rubbish. They did not find water. But later others said they would have a diviner and the result was a splendid flow. Another time a bore was put down unsuccessfully only ten feet from where the diviner had said was water. This bore had missed the stream, but when it was put,in the right place which the diviner had indicated, there was an abundant supply. Would local councils pay men to locate all* their water-bores if they were a failure? Note that it was running water, and maybe this generates electricity which some persons are susceptible to. Hence many of the experiments of your contributor would be a failure; but the results of water-divining are proved beyond all doubt.
A.
SUTCLIFFE
(Takapuna).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 380, 4 October 1946, Page 5
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211WATER-DIVINING New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 380, 4 October 1946, Page 5
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