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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 1 April 1910, Page 7

Mr James Stewart, the well-known snginecr, writing to the "Auckland Herald" on the subject of the lost Terraces says that on June 12th. 1885. he organised an exploring party to l!o----lomahana. The site of the Pink Ter■ace was reached on Sunday morning, .Mid was seen to be the locality, of one :.f the two huge whirling columns of .-team which were visible even from the higher parts of Auckland. Where the Pink Terrace had been nothing could be seen but a mass of tumbling clouds of steam, above which, and rising quite ICOt't higher, the writer counted twenty two jets" of boiling mud. potomahana before the eruption was a shallow lake about a mile long and a third of a mile j wide. It was blown out to 200 ft or 300 ft in depth, the bottom being studded with cones belching forth rearing steam. The lake is now about three miles long, and at die sit e of the Pink Terrace quite one mile apart. Under these circumstances Mr Stewart adds, how anyone can think tha.t the Terraces 3till exist, and that public money should be spent in searching for them, passes understanding.