EARTH CRUST BREAKS.
. BOILING STREAM SEEN BELOW • ACCIDENT AT "WHAXA." GUIDE ESCAPES DEATH. s (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) ROTORUA. this dav. ' Guide Edie escaped a terrible deatl " yesterday, when, the ground giving beneath her, she saved herself from t falling into a boiling stream below. a It was in a path used bv thousand? 1 of people walking through the n*tire e reserve at Whakarewarewa that tie E subsidence took place. Guide Edie was e a short distance from the entrance when the crust over the stream broke, and one of her legs went down. She pulled r herself up sharply, and walked back ®j uninjured. i The hole is several feet wide an! ? about 12ft deep, and. a* far a? ran be ® seen, a large area in the vicinity is , undermined. 1 It is fortunate that Guide Edie was J alone, for if a number of people had been together the fall of earth would have been more sudden, and a disaster I would surely have resulted. ■ I
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 155, 4 July 1927, Page 10
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