NOISE MYSTERY SOLVED
CAVE EXPLORERS’ DISCOVERY
"The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND, April 12. Members of the New Zealand Speleological Society have discovered why airmen hear a loud noise of rushing water when flying over bush west of Te Kuiti, according to the president of the society (Mr H. G. Lambert).
Topdressing pilots flying over Mr C. Dudgeon’s 3000-acre property in the heart of the cave country have often noticed, over one particular spot, the loud noise of a rushing torrent. This is so intense as to be audible above the engine roar of a Tiger Moth. Aerial photographs yielded no clue because of dense bush. Dozens of limestone caves in the vicinity made it seem likely that the water rished down some vertical shaft.
Mr Dudgeon, with a party of speleologists. conducted an all-day search for the cause of the phenomenon. They discovered an un-named stream emerging from the base of a limestone cliff and cascading noisily down a succession of waterfalls.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27632, 13 April 1955, Page 9
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