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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16942, 17 January 1923, Page 8

Arrangements are being made for members of the AWE.A. bo visit Lake Coleridge on Sunday, January 28, and inspect the hydro-electrical scheme. Caves having potentialities from tiro tourist’s poiut of view are being investigated in the King Country, says the “ Auckland Star.” A visitor to Pro Pio stated that within a mile of that town here is an underground cave, through which runs a river. This cave has been explored up to 1200 yards, lut that is not its full extent. The distance explored showed that there were a number of branch caves, all of beautiful formation. These side caves are at present blocked by silt, but this could be easily removed. If these caves were considered, after a thorough investigation, to be of value from a tour- x ist point of view, they could be illuminated by electric light, if the TYairere scheme is carried out, for a very small sum. Sufficient water power, however, is available to generate electricity in the caves themselves. There is another cave known to exist about a quarter of a mile from Pio Pio. and although this has not been explored to any extent, it believed that it is of larger dimensions than the first mentioned one. Tt would take a small sum of money tv> explore this latter, hut a movement is afoot to have this done by sinking a hole through the silt formation at the opening Mrs Newlywed (tearfully, after complaints about sponge cake): “ It’s that wretched chemist’s fault—he must have given me the wrong kind of sponges!”