The news of the eruption p | f Niuafomij. or Tin Can Island, is of more than passing interest to New Zealand astronomers. For to that speck in tho ocean it has been planned to send an expedition in October next year to observe a total eclipse of the sun. The island is simply a volcano, with a lake where the old crater lay. The volcano was considered to be extinct, but it is obviously not so, and the question now arises whether the island will he a fit place next year for an astronomical expedition. There is time, fortunately, before the expedition sets out for either the eruption to subside or for the island to be obliterated. Incidentally, the name Tin Can Island is derived from the method used by the thousand or so natives to collect their scanty mail 'from passing ships.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1929, Page 6
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