NEW GEYSER APPEARS
DISPLAY AT WAIRAKEL - “MINIATURE W-AIMANGU.”' • A , large geyser,.' described. as being - like a miniature- Waimangu, - broke out in the Wairakei Valley on Thursday, according .to advice : received in Auck--1 land that evening. The new, or j • thermal activity is just east of - tae Pink Terraces in Geyser Valley.. Like practically .all the other geysers, in the valley it plays with almost uncanny re-o-ularity and every fours hours, yesterday it shot large quantities of mud and stone into- the air to-a height of about 150 ft. . -. ... The geyer, as yet unnamed, is earn to provide an awesome rather than a beautiful spectacle,, but, if it continues to play, it should add another interesting sight to this unique locality. Nobody at Wairakei has any knowledge of a geyser having played from this spot before. It is also reported that there has Deen considerable activity in the crater o during the last few da ye. A° dense volume of- black smoke has been seen rising steadily into the Quite frequently volcanic activity m one centre of the thermal region is accompanied by either increased or diminished activity in some other locau.y. Activity at the hot lake on the sum-i mit of Ruapehu, the Ketetahi Sprmgs on the slopes of Tongariro and. in the crater of Ngauruhoe frequently vanes, jin this manner. e I
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 February 1931, Page 5
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223NEW GEYSER APPEARS Taranaki Daily News, 24 February 1931, Page 5
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