SUBSIDENCE AT ROTORUA
SCENE of Nt'MEROFS ENTERTAINMENTS. Hot uni a, East Night. At no,ai in day, without warning a big area of ground in front of the Maori meeting house at Mliakn -uli.sided, leaving a lade filled with bailing water fifteen feel deep. Yestcrda v a great crowd of visitors was on the -pot, which was ihe me ne ot numerous entertainments, including British. .Japanese and .v meric,-in Heels, and over which halms were performed lor generations. The hole measures on the surface twelve feet by ten, but the sides are cavernous and heavy i• • j le. i-luad-- aie is.-ming to disguise : i-- extent. The meeting house is .mi apparently endangered, though ;hc struct tile is adjacent. The subof ih-.- walls is friable and be nil imu le' limit of Ihe subsidence ~ hard lo define. Numbers of (.cc I;;: • if.-., nilracted i»y the news, visited tile spot I Ids afternoon. Im! xcp', ul a discreet distance.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2891, 2 June 1925, Page 2
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156SUBSIDENCE AT ROTORUA Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2891, 2 June 1925, Page 2
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