WATER DIVINING TEST

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12140, 30 December 1933, Page 2

WATER DIVINING TEST

YOUTH BECOMES UNCONSCIOUS ’ “SOBBED HYSTERICALLY” NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec. 27 - The powers of wafer divining, at which some people still scoff, were demonstrated in a remarkable manner at Stratford during til week-end.' Those who doubt that the- power exists could receive a very definite answer from a youth who, holding one end of a divining rod and joining the o! her hand with that of the div--iner, suffered violent reactions and was rendered temporarily unconscious* , ThV diviner is- ’employed by a Stratford! firm of dairying engineers, and for some years has been successfully using his powers ?:o locate underground streams of water. This week-end the firm; received an order to locate water and', sink an artesian well on a farm property. The diviner, another member of j.'he firm and a boy on the staff, visited! the property and went about their business in the . usual way. The divining rod in. this instance was a thick piece of fencing wire bent in the form of a wThe diviner gripped; the wire, with the apex of the w pointing upwai-c!:, anj khe search began. There was! no .doubt" about the phenomena that followed:

When- the party arrived over the spot where underground water flowed the wireY began to tremble and gradually forced '(self around, against the pressure the diviner exrprte'd against if), until the apex pointed to the place of the idfrongest flow. Whatever position ‘he man stood in the result was the same—’ the'point of the- wire directed! them to the hidden spring., Tlien occurred, /the disturbing incident. The boy was given the wire to B ee if he also possessed the mysterious power.- The efl'eq; wa s reverse to the usual i.n “positive” cases—the ■wire pointed! violently (toward him. The boy was tried 'with the diviner, each taking hold of th Q wire with one hand- and ; clasping the spare hand of the other. The effect was nrorq than- was,bargained . for. The : wiro 'shot violently round! and the boy collapsed; with. . bis hand to. his eVes- He sobbed iiystericaily, . went red ,in. .the. face and his heart beat ■furiously. Tho wire was taken from the boy; who was unconscious and he rapidly recovered. HU had! jio-.re-i colleetidii of Avhat: had occurred, ,bi|it in . the least scqplical .coiicerning the reality of divining poiwers., t. - ■■■ .. ■