OPTICAL DELUSION.
INCIDENT AT TE AROHA. TREE MISTAKEN FOR STREAM. [from our own correspondent.] TE ARQHA. Thursday.Many residents of Te Aroha were tb» victims of an optical delusion on Wednesday. All eyes were focussed on what appeared to bo a spring of water gushing out from a x - ock on a peak of Te Aroha Mountain at a point 1500 ft. above sea level. Water appeared to rise to a height of 50ft., or 10ft. above the tops of the trees in the vicinity. An investigation showed that the phenomenon was caused by the foliage of a tall tree which : scintillated in the sunlight.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20981, 18 September 1931, Page 10
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