NGAURUHOE IN ERUPTION.
DISCHARGE OF SCORIA ASH. LIP OF CRATER SERRATED. Ngauruhoe has been in eruption recently. The honorary warden of the Tongariro National Park, Mr. J. Cullen, 1.5L0., stated yesterday that lately the mountains have all been covered with enow right down to the base. When the residents of Waimarino arose last Saturday week, however, they found that the whole of the north' side of Ngauruhoe and the shoulder on Tongariro, were black owing to a discharge of scoria ash during an eruption on the preceding night. Again last Friday, at about 4.30 p.m., Ngauruhoe sent up another great shot, which continued until nearly dark. This drifted over the line of the previous deposit, the wind being in the same direction. At the beginning of this week, when Mr. Cullen left the district, the portion of the mountain affected was still black. The lip of Ngauruhoe, on the south and south-eastern sides, was also very much serrated and had fallen in. This condition was duo to the eruption of last Fridav week.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17274, 25 September 1919, Page 6
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173NGAURUHOE IN ERUPTION. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17274, 25 September 1919, Page 6
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