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Grey River Argus, 17 June 1922, Page 3

Taupo folk have a theory that some day Mount Tauhara, “the lon-ely one” the big extinct volcano standing up alone to the cast of Taupo township will go up. Early explorers in the Taupo district were told l»y the Maoris that plenty of earthquakes meant a good season was coming. Sir James Hector noted that the year of the Tnrawera cruptiou had been an unusual one meteorologically with much dry easterly weather and a most unusually high barometer in those latitudes, which meant millions of tons more pressure on the earth’s surface. Although Rotorua and Taupo are the thermal and volcanic centres of New Zealand. Cook Strait, where there is no volcanic activity is a bigger earthquake centre. The Hot Lakes district has plenty of earthquakes, but they are purely local and rarely felt outside that area The big shakes felt all over the country come from quite a difl'erent source, somewhere out in the Pacific.