MOUNTAIN OF SULPHUR
A I'ACIFTC TREASURE.
Mr T- J- M'Mahon, P.R.G.S., n-well-known traveller; who left Sydney some ti no ago on a- tour of tho Pacific, re. Sly lade an ysoent of the. great s, phur mountain of- Vniiuu Lava Island, in the Banks Group. . ■ . „ Tlieiiiountavn, which is practically all 5 „1,1ui. "s owned by an Australian, and ov years ago was,- for a.short period. vorled bv a French company. At the p,y it \lm the sulphur of tins mountniii has ft peculiar value, ae it will be * u to Australia and New Zealand in treating Ithc Nauru Island phosphate rick an cswnt'al in fertilising the agricultural land of the Commonwealth and ' h /.ffi!£tMr.inWH»in» r m ; nan cd bv two other Australians, Messrs King an I Kecfc, and one of tho finest sfinfs was that of the eourcy of a n«r known to the natives as tho Abode of me S Tlif water is bo ling in some i, ices and' great mists arise which the native* say, form into clouds that reach the skies. ■ . , '•' ' '
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 21, 20 October 1920, Page 2
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175MOUNTAIN OF SULPHUR Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 21, 20 October 1920, Page 2
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