WATER DIVINING
Sir,-Like Mr. Sutcliffe, I am a welle. driller’s son and also the grandson and the nephew of well-drillers. I myself operate drilling plant, but not looking for water; water in fact is a nuisance, a distinct hindrance to my. work. If water will flow into a bore-hole, then, unfortunately my wash is able to flow out-and I want it at the surface, However, notwithstanding Mr. Sutcliffe’s assertion that a bore located without the help of diviner has only one chance in a hundred, I find that unwanted waterbearing strata remain a problem. In fact, there are only a few formations in North Auckland in which one can hope to sink a 60-foot bore without striking water. Incidentally, by experiment and practice I have learned to wiggle a twig with the best and in my opinion gorse makes the best divining-rod, however, the chief difference between myself and other diviners is that they believe in their mumbo-iumbo.
R.
GILBERD
(Okaihau),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 386, 15 November 1946, Page 5
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161WATER DIVINING New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 386, 15 November 1946, Page 5
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