FINDING WATER.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 284, 1 December 1915, Page 5

FINDING WATER.

REV. H. MASON'S VISIT

The Rev. H. Mason, the wale.* diviner ; took his departure from Blenheim yesterday after spending some hours in traversing the Wither Settlement and tho hospital grounds at Aniorsfoote. The results of hi,s tests were satisfactory to the settlers on whose properties he exercised his wonderful faculty, and also to tho Hospital Board, which has been <*meerned for .some' time _with the problem of supplementing its present inadequate water-supply raid' joined in tho retiuisition made to the Rev. Mr Mason to visit tho locality.

On the frontage.of the Wither llnr» Mr Mason found indications of underground streams which—with the sinking oi' wells to a. probable depth of .35 feet or r-o—would provide• ample water for the requirements of. thfj «-mail .holdings and the hirger socfion.*:' ndioinina: them. No artowan snp_>ly w;us manifest-ed, hut there was cvwy indi(Mition that the resources of tho nature mentioned aro fully relkuble.

liiose people who hope to see th«^ municipality acquire the block of land now under offer to it for the purpose*-; of a public park will bo. interested t*i learn that on that portion of theWither Run Mr Mason discovered evidences of plonUf'il and prftet-icn-lslo supplies a t two place*—one being at. the foot of tho low knob frequency described as a natural fxrandstfl.mJ, and t-h.o other iurtiier to the e-a-«t.

On tin1 ho.^piLai grounds tluv divintt :».c,«>rt;uMe<l vi-'.y strong indications t-t' ■he existence of a large supply n«i' water ex^-^tly at the point where the board proposal *o m-ov.t the now nurses' ho:ne. Here- apparently tilrtTo

there is at. no gre.it <listance tnulor-

srronnd something ,111 the sh-ap»> of ». VrT'll-defintHl reservoir, which woaW give an abii'iciant supply. A numhor oi' settlers and vopiv-

; st'iitau'vos oi ilu« Hospital Board ana ithe Horoii^li ('-ouncil ncompanied Mr | M:isou <inriii^ iiis investi^ivtions, :j,rni t took a kocn mUMvst in Jns iis.>v<- '■ iricni-..