UNIQUE HAPPENING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 675, 30 October 1933, Page 4

UNIQUE HAPPENING

THERMAL VENTM SMALL ERUPTION OF STeB ON ARIKIKAPAKAPA® GOLF COURSE S ANOTHER UNDER COTT* Despite complaints regardingH lake level • (which should be to some extent by the week-enjW there are still occasional unex^H manifestations of thermal actifl| the Rotorua district. One occurred recently on the Arik^M kapa Golf course where a stea^H was discovered near the tee seventeenth. It was noticed patch of grass on the fairway coming very dry and brown, was at first thought that fiuH caused hy the grass gruh. H pipe was sunk, however, it steady pulsations of steam asdfl are still continuing. Two draiH have been sunk in the groundjj vide the vents and the discoveB given a new thermal attraction-^B , cause. Although the vent is fl side of a small gully, the steafl i he seen rising from it from tlS t/66. -One of the staff of King Geofl Hospital occupying a cottage S hospital grounds, also had - usual experience recently. early hours of the morning awakened by one comer of lfl| subsiding. Investigations sho^rH one of the floor boards ha« away and when further investijjM were made in the morning found that the flooring had befl ted hy vapour rising from aV thermal vent under the house,® A small vent of a similar ® was also discovered last week® v/orking on the widening of Ra® ■ Street, where it borders Puke® serve. _________ ®