POOR TIDES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 135, 9 June 1926, Page 12

POOR TIDES.

HARBOURS SHOALING UP. Sonic boating and yachting men are having considerable difficulty this season in getting their launches hauled up on account of what they describe as the poor tides compared with former years. Old seafaring men have been predicting abnormal tides, which have never come in. One launch owner, who says that he has been fifty-three years connected with boats, thinks there is a good deal of truth in a statement he recently saw in a Home magazine that the Northern Hemisphere is slowly and imperceptibly falling and that the Southern Hemisphere is just as surely rising. The great flood tides which used to come up the Waitemata Harbour with a rush fifty years ago are not seen to-day. There were tide gauges, which showed what he said was true, but who ever bothered about tide gauges these days? Most tides were much the same as' far as spring tides, at any rate, were concerned. The great body of the land was rising, without a doubt, in these Southern climes, and this was the cause of the bis tides becoming less "and less, till now they were of no value whatever a.- compared with the volume of water which used to come in. There was a shoaling up, which could only be accounted for in the way he had indicated.