THAT CRATER LAKE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 220, 15 August 1927, Page 2

THAT CRATER LAKE.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —In your last evening’s issue there appears a paragraph statingtliat the Crater Lake on Ruapehu an<P the Tama Lakes are at present frozen. As this information is of general interest, may I be permitted to question its accuracy. I have been visiting these places for 20 years past, in all weathers and seasons, and I lrave never vet. found tho. Crater Lake, or either of the Lakes of Nga Puna a Tama frozen, and a similar remark applies to the —Blue Lake and the Rotopounamu group. I have been several times misled by its appearance into believing the Crater Lake frozen, but the throwing of a piece of ice on to its surface at once dispels what invariably proves to he an optical illusion. Neither have I seen the lake boil, though it certainly fumes and changes colour, and inquiry among individuals who have “6een” the lake frozen or boiling invariably discloses either secondhand information or a complete omission of the simple tests for verification. The Lakes of Nga Puna a Tama are very deep, and it requires a liberal measure of credulitv to believe that they freeze at all, hut twentytwo inches! —I am, etc., DTD’S MITS. _ Palmerston North. August 13, 1927.