RIVER BENEATH THE TASMAN?
CLAIM BY WATER DIVINER MEMBER OF TOURING N.Z. FARMERS’ PARTY (Received April 17, 11.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, April 17. Among a party of New Zealand farmers which arrived by the Wanganella today on a goodwill tom? of New South Wales and Victoria is a water diviner, Mr W. J. Livingstone, of Hawke’s Bay, who told The Sun that he had discovered a fast-flowing freshwater river beneath the Tasman Sea.. Mr Livingstone said he was experimenting during the voyage when there was a definite pull on his rod, lasting a minute or so, about halfway across the Tasman. He estimated that the river was several hundred feet wide.
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Southland Times, Issue 23795, 18 April 1939, Page 7
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