NOT GOING UP YET.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 12 May 1913, Page 4

NOT GOING UP YET.

ROTORTJA STILTL SAJFE.

PROF. ■ PERdIVAL'S *#RtatOT]fc>*f ".: ../ j:., t DISCOUNTED.:;: ;. -\ '■<..

-- <By Telegraphy) , (Special to "Chronicle.") ■■■■•v •.;■;•:•>, • : --^&CELLAND i :iMay H. •,... ■ The predictions of Professor Percival ar,e .odnsiderably ,;discounted- ; by .Professor.; Ay P.. W. ThomaSj ,pf Auckland. TJn.i- •'-.. versity College, who-hasjirMade a close study of the. tjierina,l. features of theHot Lakes and ; ■who -is recdg- . nised as pne"o| the^est informed, authopities '•on;' "the/; subject.'. '..X; i-?^- "^■';-r:-'-v;-' n. . " Whilst .it,is- possible^ne^ :said to an ' \ interviewer regarding' ia probable blow-' up at Rotprua { ,''that we niay hare a volcanic eruption, it is: only '.»; possi- '.;'■' bility. No person need be.in the least alarmed, however,; with^^peculationß of this kind. AcsiYity.>at.R^torua," Professor Thomas-went? on:'' $p say;;" varies "from time to time. ,-h don't think,,how.ever, frpm^whafr 1. have -heard, that there" Jias been.;any increase of activity at, Rotoruar; .Ifr.tKere;,ibiid been any- " ifiuch'ihcrease^ I would Cc?Ttainly* have heard'oOt:",' ,P.rp.fessQr «*dded that infftn^ r ey 4 bnt he did npt think that ' a^^ pers9n[v^i?iitnK su6h^^-' long «(?f ;time cis tbpse between the ( visits'* bl'ProfeSsrft- Percival could " claim |to be an on yoloanic- . action 'here. Apparently the .ac^yiiy \r\ at'Roifcorua dependeid on the;istafe of the atmospherb:* @fJ .\huinid conditions' •: prevailed, more'steam was-generated, , while in. dry weajbher: te^s. ; vapour: was noticeable. tWijth^iregard "to Percival's statemgnt. as\to .the dii-ectibn iof <f the line Jpf fault,'? professor Thomas said :/' ; There ; is .nothing new- in this , statement.- Th,e^sa ; in6 ; .thing was mid «., hundred years .agoi'i; :Se added; that:. . whilst speculations,such , astthose pnt ':., forward^ by ;i Prt)fejS3qr .Percival might be ~. *interpstingamong geologists, t,liere.tor . nothing"" to warran%: the puhlishinp of "the jitatement implying that New land was a dangeicpjjs'nlace. '^We.c^n: ,* Hhnrikfully ■:..sss/&&£ said.^.^Jwithdtit: f being Mri the|Ma"s|i|4i3k'rmed" as to (any; eruption- yth4fe»fel»t^ake-i^aiee;::«^At;-^]. v»fey,- rate -Hplh^g^ip^QatxPTOfessdtoPeiy';-'. ■ - civa'l might :Mwj 'T^fllfiialter, things. It ir> worth recocdin aS^hiiti- when in Syd- c «ey en routelltoyJl^tZcaland v . Porcival. gav^.iatt^^noe' itd iquite a dif- "?:'• v fercn^ view 'xbat ■fenkt cnMed . hin- opinion on ith^occasion be.inp that tho nest of .volmij^esvaroundJAticklan^ .<■ . wias ; ne,ver.likely t^.^e; a menace, an 3 .. tho '-whole. .teadfinc^.-df ■p6lcd!?iic- ijKency : {.;. ywnr. "to. ,como|j"i«:-'y;*Of.^nd/>^ : He ■"'added':.-' ;v' 1 'Tho--itherma||;-;ph^^^na^!a% ; Rojt^rnn. \ ■ will /slowly-;ifMset||a^d''it is/"Unlikely-! > that thert wplli;«?y^r;,beffanother Tara-wem;'ier«ntjpj|i:y::"%;^,^.-!|'T:'.:v-i"^>; ; ••. •■■'••:'": ;,: •'■•■•