YOUNGEST VOLCANO.
EVIDENCE ON MOUNT EGMONT,
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. After spending three days exploring the eastern slopes of Mount Egmont, Mr. W. R. B. Oliver, Director of the Dominion Museum, is more than ever convinced that Mount Egmont is the youngest volcano of any magnitude in New Zealand. "I have found a good deal of supporting evidence," he said. "The situation of the Maori oven was in itself conclusive e'nougli, but all over the mountain are to be seen indications of a big eruption dating not much earlier tha'n 500 years ago." In the course of his investigations Mr. Oliver encountered a fine totara tree measuring 16ft in circumference, standing at an altitude of about 3500 feet. He climbed the tree, a'nd on the fork 15 feet above the ground found a double handful of scoria which could only have been deposited from an eruption when the totara was young.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 72, 26 March 1931, Page 20
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