A SCARE MESSAGE.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1922, Page 3

A SCARE MESSAGE.

(,lUAKE DANGERS \T TAITO. lIIV TF.I.KOHAIMI—PUR PIIKSS ASSOCIATIOX’] ROTORUA, !une <». Tas Mitchell has sent the fi.llowing letter to the Postmaster < ’eneial Just returned from Taupo, where earthquak s are occurring div anil nigh’, some violent. The people, particularly U women, are feeling i!ie strain badly. Suggest that Post Offices a! Taupo Wahnkci and Oninatmi L- kept open at nigh's and that eat proprietors be instrueteil to keep in rea Bucks, as a measure of precaution. This will comfort t o residents in the affected areas should the worst happen. FURTHER PARTICULARS. ROTORUA, June 9. For some four weeks. Tail]) i has experienced many earth tremors. During the first lwo weeks the tremors were not unduly noticed. Hut the las' two weeks they have, been severe. (oiiitimod shakes for the past fortnight have been experienced. Visitors who are not accustomed to the tremors have made exaggerated repoiiS, hut lately the residents, especially the females, are feeling uneasy. Tim manifestations are essentially local, and are only tremors, not sustained earthquakes. The origin and direction of travel of the quakes are in doubt. Many theories are advanced by the people ol the district. Ihe tremors being essentially local, nothing has been felt at Rotorua. Residents of Rotorua visited Taupo on Thursday. They state they felt severe tremnis. Some of them Here nearly equal to Tarawcra earthquakes in ]'SS7. The consistency of .I he tremors has prevented lli“ visitors from going to the district, but in (lie slack season not many are travelling. Tlie disturbances appear to be seismic, nod there is no unusual thermal actio i. No expert advice ims yet been given as to their origin, and therefore il is mu possible to say whether the ilisl in bailee is serious or otherwise.

SCIENTISTS TO INVESTIGATE. WEI.I INGTOX. .Inn.' P. In n ecu rd aui e with a suggestion ol the Board of Science and Arts, a brief investigatien of the earthquakes now occurring at Tamm is to he made by Mr Morgan. Professor Mnrsden. a ml* Dr Adani“. Tin v left’ Wellington to-day, and have taken with them instruments with which tliev will discover the direction of the tremors, and if possible, arrive at a conclusion as t<> whether there i s a likelihood of a considerable outbreak. With' reference to a suggestion in a Rotorua, telegram to-day that the telegranh'offices in tlm district should he kept open at night, the PostmasterGenera! will leave it to the scientists to decide whether it. is necessary.