FULL CREEKS.
A CURIOUS PHENOMENON/.,;.. . The limestone country in : the Gladstone ,Wairarapa district is responsible' : 'for va, onrious; geological, phenomenon (write? our Wairarapa correspondent). ! There hns'-bcen .•no ■ nuni-in,the. district .for ;pr&ct!cal]y- r five., months, .but.creeks which were dry 3 a.'''m'<snt.h ago had running, streams in . yiem '' thrdi weeks later. It may bo explained that tHoro was no rain in the interval, The explanation given ig: interesting. J'ho winter of 1906'. was a, dry , winter - in the .Gladstone district,but last winter-; was very wet. The result -13 that the moisture'of. last winter -is just, per-, c'olating through tho drv strata: .which foed tho crocks. Cases of this >-nature do pot occur in papa country, which is all surfaOfi.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 138, 5 March 1908, Page 2
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117FULL CREEKS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 138, 5 March 1908, Page 2
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