LAND OF EARTHQUAKES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1695, 11 March 1913, Page 6

LAND OF EARTHQUAKES.

AN ERRONEOUS IDEA. Tho cabled information about.the earthquakes in New Zealand has ' confirmed some people in Australia (says the Sydney correspondent of the Auckland "Herald") in their belief of• New Zealand as being closely associated with Dante's Inferno. It is bad enough to have Rotorua described in that way, but when-the whole of the Dominion, is regarded as "dangerous" it is apt to lead to a falling-oft' ia the .tourist traffic. Probably if the officers in charge of the Now- Zealand Tourist and Immigration offices in Sydney and Melbourne had their way they would prothe cabling of information about tho Dominion's earthquakes. One of tho newspapers in Australia put up tho heading "The Land of Earthquakes"—as ' if' earthquakes- were of everyday occurrence across the Tasman Sea. There are a few lieople, of course, who are attracted by such things—people who have never felt what an-earthquake is like, and want to go through the experience,' and who would "'just love to see all those geysers and" boiling mud arrangements at liotorua"— but; the majority of men and women ars 'scared-by .the thought of such things. "If there's one thing I like to be sura of," said a lady in her snug drawingroom at Potts Point the other night, "it is that I'll wake and get up in the morning,and not find the earth has fallen in. My daughters are always wanting me to take I hem over to New Zealand for a holiday, but I daren't. Something dreadful is going to happen there ono of these days, you mark my words, I've just been reading about these earthquakes they've had there. The poor -miners sny it was liko pandemonium. I .fully believe tliat the whole'of New Zealand will-just drop down into the sea before- long."