Scientists receive pink rock
PA Wellington Two samples of pink rock that could be from the buried Pink Terraces, destroyed by the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera have been received by D.S.I.R. scientists. Dr Gordon Leary, director of the Chemistry Division said a dozen people were forwarding remnants believed to be from the Pink and White Terraces. One — made of pink
silica — dated back to the family of a schoolteacher killed in the eruption. Dr Leary said the schoolteacher’s wife was dug out alive from the feet of mud thrown up by the eruption. The fragments were passed from one of the two daughters of the teacher who survived the disaster to a Hamilton woman. She sent them to Dr Leary. He said analysis of the sample would begin in the next week or two.
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Press, 29 January 1986, Page 26
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135Scientists receive pink rock Press, 29 January 1986, Page 26
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