“GEYSER” AT TE AROHA
SPECTACULAR DISPLAYS S U CCESSFU L EX PER IMENTS Experiments with the new “geyser’’’ which it is hoped to niuke a feature of the Te Aiolia Tourist Domain are arousing interest. The fixing of a 2in nozzle to the bore has resulted in the boiling water being thrown to a height of 30ft, twice as high as previously. '} 1,0 8l "ge occurs regularly every 12 minutes. Every third shot is more powerl'd than the others and lasts twice as long, giving II higher slreuin of water. 'I lie effect is enhanced by the fact that tin. wafer, on reaching a certain height, funs out, and in falling is caught again by file column until it descends in um. hrelia shape to the ground. Clouds of Kteiini add to the general effect. Move,-a) names for the "geyser" have snggcsled. tlie most favoured being Mokena, after the Maori chief who otiginally owned the domain and handed it over as a national asset.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 28 November 1938, Page 4
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