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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 81, 5 April 1923, Page 8

The blow-out at Ohinemutu on Monday morning, when one of those somnolent steam holes with which Rotorua abounds, suddenly burst into activity, was witnessed by a resident of Auckland. Mr. ti. Graham. He states that there were two distinct bursts. At the first a column of steam, water and liquid mud was thrown into the air to a height oi fifty feet. It gradually tapered oil and the conditions were apparently restoring themselves when, like the 'gush of a miniature volcano, the column was again thrown into the air and was sup ported there for several minutes. It was later found that the surface of the pool had sunk about eight feet and a hole ten feet in diameter had been excavated. The spot is some distano? from the nearest house and very few of the natives or residents saw it. Haling freed itself of an apparent obstruc tion the hole has resumed its previous dormant appearance, and only the stearr and bubbling silt give any indication ol the weird underworld with which if connects, and of whose vagaries it on casionalK. -s •- . -• — ■■■ tun mstmice, givematerial evidence.