RIVER BENEATH TASMAN
WATER DIVINER’S CLAIM EXPERIMENT ON VOYAGE TO SYDNEY United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright SYDNEY, April 17. Among a party of New Zealand farmers who arrived in Sydney yesterday by the Wanganella on a good will tour of New South Wales and Victoria is a water diviner, Mr W. J. Livingstone, of Hawke’s Bay, wht? 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 for a minute or so. The experiment was made when about halfway across the Tasman. He estimated that the river was several hundred feet wide.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21324, 19 April 1939, Page 7
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121RIVER BENEATH TASMAN Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21324, 19 April 1939, Page 7
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