UNDERSEA RIVER
FLOWING BENEATH TASMAN. DIVINED BY FARMER. SYDNEY, April 17. Among a pnrtv of New Zealand farmers, who arrived to-day on a goodwill tour of New Soi fh Vales and Victoria, was a water-diviner, Mr W. J. Livingstone, of Hawke’s Bay, who told a Sun reporter that he had discovered a fast-flowing fresh-water river beneath the Tasman Sea.
Mr Livingstone said that he was experimenting during the voyage when there was a definite pull on his rod lasting a minute so so about halfway across the Tasman. He estimated that the river was several hundred feet wide.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 117, 18 April 1939, Page 7
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98UNDERSEA RIVER Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 117, 18 April 1939, Page 7
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