NEW GEYSER

Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1931, Page 2

NEW GEYSER

ACTIVITY AT WAIRAKEI. SMOKE RISING FROM NGAURUHOE. AUCKLAND, February 19. A large geyser, described ns being like a miniature Waimangu, broke out in the Wairakej Vnlley to-day, according to advice received in Auckland. The new centre of thermal activity is just off the Pink Terraces in Geyser Valley. Like practically all the other geysers in the Valley, it plays with almost uncanny .regularity, and every four hours yesterday it shot large quantities of mud and stone into the air to a height of about 150 ft-. The geyser, as yet unnamed, is said to provide an awesome rather than a beautiful spectacle, but if it continues to play it- should add another interesting sight to this unique locality. Nobody at Wairakei has any knowledge of a geyser having played from this, spot before. | Tt- is also reported that there has been considerable activity in the crater of Ngnuruhoe. During the last few days a dense volume of black smoke has j been seen rising steadily into the sky. ! Quite frequently volcanic activity in one centre of the thermal region is accompanied by either increased or diminished activity in some other locality. Activity at the hot lake on the summit of Ruapehu, the Ivetetahi springs on the slopes of Tongnriro, and in the crater of Ngauruhoe frequently varies in this manner.