NGAURUHOE ACTIVE

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1934, Page 5

NGAURUHOE ACTIVE

VOLCANO OBSCURE

FIRE IS NOW NEAR THE TOP.

(Per Press Association, Copyright).

WELLINGTON, December 10. Air R. Cobbe, the manager of Chateau Tongariro, in a telephone message, said that the weather there overcast, and it; is raining heavily. Nothing has been seen of Alt Ngaruhoe.for about five hours, but when the volcano was last seen, its smoke was still rising to a tremendous height. • * ~v, ’ The smoke has now cjianged from black columns to white '•columns, "this showing that the fire is near 'the top. There is a big <>yellow halo round the steam cloud. No further explosions have beep, heard. . ..

Some remarkable photographs have been secured. These, with a brief description, are being sent "to the Tourist Bureau.

The present conditions (are very similar to the preliminaries of the. 1928 eruption. . .> • ; v . The eruption has calmed to-day, though at seven o’clock this morning, smoke was ascending to <a- height pf '3OOO ' feet. The crater , appeared to he throwing out clouds of white steam . with an edging of yellow sulphurous fumes. The atmosphere is cloudy, and jobservgtiort of eruption is difficult from a distance.

TREMORS AT QUEENSTOWN . *|

QUEENSTOWN, December 9. Queenstown experienced several short, but sharp, earthauake shck s at ' 8.50 a.m. to-day. Buildings rattled - and shook alarmingly for a moment but the motion ceased as suddenly as it began.