  The persistent quasi-planar nematic texture known also as the dowser texture
is characterized by a 2D unitary vector field d. We show here that the dowser
texture is sensitive, in first order, to electric fields. This property is due
to the flexo-electric polarisation P collinear with d expected from R.B.
Meyer's considerations on flexo-electricity in nematics. It is pointed out that
due to the flexo-electric polarisation nematic monopoles can be manipulated by
electric fields of appropriated geometry.
