COAL IN OTAGO

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16923, 11 April 1929, Page 11

COAL IN OTAGO

WATER DIVINER’S BELIEF A South Otago correspondent of the (Jingo Daily Times writes as follows: “Some local interest has been aroused m a company now in course of formation, to be known as the Mosley Prospecting Co., which has lor its object the prospecting for coal on a property at Pukerau of 1100 acres owned by Mr. Stanley Edwards. Mr. John Mosley, of Stirling, who has gained considerable a,s a diviner of water sapplies and also of mineral strata, is a director o the company, which has been formed directly as an outcome of- his views on the subject of hidden wealth. Mr. Mosley has positively asserted on many occasions and' after repeated tests that there exists on the Pukerau- property a lmge bituminous coalfield, extending over practically the whole of the property at a depth of probably under 500 feet.’ It is now proposed to put down a boro at Pukerau at a spot to be selected by Air. -Mosley, vising a drilling plant at, present under offer on loan by the Government Mines Department, lhe result will be awaited with interest on account oS Air. Mosley's undoubted reputation as a water-diviner and because of the scepticism with which most people are inclined to regard anything out o their ken. Air. Mosley lias always held that Otago possesses immense stoves ot coal sealed up under her sandstone belts, and that Otago and Southland had probably move mineral wealth than all the rest of New Zealand. He has also given it as his belief, founded on experiments with the divining rod, attuned to detect the presence of minerals, that his home province possesses snbtcraimean oil-fields big enough to excite the envy of John 1). Rockefeller.”