Main Ngauruhoe
Ve nt Plugged
AUCKLAND, Wed. (Sp.).—A 70yard wide lava plug now blocks the vent in the crater of Mt. Ngauruhoe from which the main lava flow , came in the recent eruption. Mr P. Nilsson, a student on vacation from the New Zealand Missionary College, Longburn, made this discovery late last week when he accomplished what he . believed to be the first descent into the bottom of the crater since 1 the eruption. He walked on the tholoid, which he believed had developed in the last five weeks, and found it cold, with a few wisps of, steam still rising from it. The main activity was coming from a vent in the north-eastern portion of the crater. A third vent was’lnactive.
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Northern Advocate, 18 May 1949, Page 5
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122Main Ngauruhoe Vent Plugged Northern Advocate, 18 May 1949, Page 5
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