BENEATH TASMAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 90, 18 April 1939, Page 9

BENEATH TASMAN.

Otway McCannell, 8.A., A.R.W.A., figure and portrait painter, and principal of the Farnham Art School, "was born_ in 1883 and educated at Nelson College, New Zealand. He studied at Kensington and m Italy. He was awarded the Royal Exhibition of Art in 1905, Royal College of Art scholarship in 1907, the Associateship in 1908, and an honorary membership of the Paris Salon, 1928. He is a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy, the Goupil, the Grosvenor and other leading London and Continental exhibitions. His works have been purchased for municipal and private collections. In 1924 he exhibited at the Academy a picture, "The Devil's Chees Board," which caused mudh controversy.

New Zealand Diviner "Finds" Fresh-water River. HUNDREDS OF FEET WIDE. (Received 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Among a party of New Zealand farmers who arrived yesterday on a goodwill tour of New South Wales and Victoria is a water diviner, Mr. W. J. Livingstone, of Hawke's Bay, who told a reporter that he had discovered a fastflowing fresh-water river beneath the Tasman Sea. Mr. Livingstone said he was experimenting during the voyage when there was a definite pull on his divining rod fasting a minute or so, about halfway *acrbss the Tasman. He estimated the fiver to b$ several hundred feet wide. 1