VALUE OF DIVINING

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11877, 23 February 1933, Page 2

VALUE OF DIVINING

SUNKEN METAL LOCATED

Three men in a boat on the Waitara River is not an unusual occurrence in itself, but because of its novel, quest much interest was shown, in a email boat being rotved upstream from the town bridge last week. . Of the three young men in. the craftone was the owner of an outboard mo-tor-boat, and another was, hi's. mate. The third was a diviner. While driving his machine around a bend in the Waitara- River near the bridge last Monday, the owner hit a submerged log, tvhich snapped off the” rudder', propeiley ancl driving rod, depositing them! at. the bottom of! ; j the fiver. 1 A' professional water diviner, complete with divining rod, was taken on the river on Friday in an. endeavour to locate the missing machinery. , The quest was entirely successful. In such circumstances a piece of the metal desired is placed upon the Y~ fjhaped! divining rod, which, is then .supposed to show sign's of activity when near deposits of similar metal. The lost portion contained brass, aluminium and.steel, and wben-in the Vicinity of the lost propeller the twig rented violently to I 'pieces’ of the.metals placed upon it. The sit© of the sunken/iiiece; of sngin'e. was jotne--little distance away from where the owner •supposed it to be. . ; . ;