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Little-Known Thermal Area
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ROTORUA, Last Night. An unusual, interesting and littleknown. thermal ( aroa in the Rotorua district will be opened up and exploited for the first time os a resuit of a deeision by the Public "Works Department to spend a sum of money in iinproving the access road to OrakeiKorako from Ataimuri. An announcement to this effect was made by the Minister of Public Works, the* Hon. R. Semple, yesterday. The area comprises wliite silicated terraces, the largest in the world, and rivalling those of Rotomahana, which were destroyed when Tarawera mountain erupted in 1886, geysers, boiling pools, and a fern-embowered cave known as Alum Cave. It will also open up new stretches of virgin fishing waters where the - Waikato rjver flows through, the OrakeiJ&erako Vallqjr,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 2, 25 September 1937, Page 6
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