VOLCANIC ACTIVITY
VISIT TO MOUNT NGAURUHOE.
"D.uring tho last.-, two .or three years there have been some noticeable changes so far as thermal activity is concerned," remarked.Mr.„ R. M. Algie, a' membeV of the Ruapehu Ski-ing Club, to a Wanganui Chriniclo reporter. "The great geyser at Ketetahi, on Tongariro, now sends out its column of steam and boiling, water some ISft or 20ft from where !it originally was. . The large crater and vent-hole on Ngauruhoe were much filled during the last eruption, and the crater is now shallower by about 200 ft. 'The large crater lake on Ruapehu • appears to have -been fairly active also,"" for -the snow slopes leading down to -the lake seem to be much more heavily coated with sulphur.
"I am not sufficiently acquainted witih volcanic! phenomena," concluded Mr. Algie, "to say that-another eruption, of Ngaruruhoe is imminent, but, during my stay this time, a column of black smoke did issue from the crater, and I believe this has not happened for some time. This possibility of volcanic disturbance adds only, one more wonder to the vast attractions of this most interesting district."
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 126, 30 May 1919, Page 7
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