DIVINING FOR GOLD

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 186, 4 May 1933, Page 8

DIVINING FOR GOLD

Strange Performance in Karori Street FORKED STICK EMPLOYED Equipped with a forked macrocarpa branch, a resident of Woodville, Mr. O. McDonald, gave a demonstration at Karori yesterday with the object of proving a claim that he could detect gold deposits. The demonstrator was followed by an interested gathering as he paced up Campbell Street, Karori. The forked end of the branch made a sudden dip, and after a. few paces returned to the normal position. This performance was repeated several times, and the demonstrator said that there were probably rich gold reefs running in a north-easterly direction in this locality. A number of tho witnesses took the branch in turn, and most of them said they felt a decided pull toward the earth. At one test the branch broke. Two sovereigns in an envelope were concealed in long grass out of view of the demonstrator, who later located the “plaut.” He said he had been gold divining for about 12 years. There was a distinct difference in the pull exercised when water was located, he said. His preference was for the branch of a quince tree on account of its strength. The demonstrator was later driven In a motor-car over the same spots covered on foot, and the branch dipped at Identical points. He said preparations were being made to sink a bore In the Nelson district to prove his contentions.