A writer in an Auckland weekly recently wrote admiringly that the most wonderful thing about Whakarewarewa was the guides. From a somewhat different angle, yet still in awe. Tangiwai writes in the New Zealand Railways Magazine that some years ago lie saw an earnest party of Australian women school teachers, with notebooks out, standing near the Wairoa geyser at Whakarewarewa. with a girl guide of the village. “Up went the geyser, higher and higher, while the girls scattered with squeals of fright and delight. How high did it go?' they asked with one accord, when it was all over. ‘Seven hundred feet,’ said the guide firmly. And down went the 700 ft in half a dozen notebooks, no doubt to be embodied in due course in a school lesson or a college thesis on the marvels of New Zealand geyserland. No use any mere Maorilander contradicting that estimate! It was down in the notebooks.’'
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19474, 26 April 1933, Page 7
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