WAIMANGU AWAKES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 185, 15 April 1915, Page 6

WAIMANGU AWAKES

....'. ." .;. GETSBFv ACTIVE AGAIN". ' ENOiIHOUS ''BW-T...1N FLOOR OF Kv; ''"' ( , ' V FKYIN.G' PAN.'" b ~., ■-. f . ■ :' r" IK)TORUA,.ApriiI2. The gVe>,t" Waimangu,.geyser, seven-, teea miles from Rotorua,. which 7ias been' qu'iQscent. Jt'or eleven;; .years,; be.came active this afternoon. About 2.10 p.m. r'n eruption ..occurred . whiblr blewk hole SO yards~l6ng and 75 v:-r.'< wide isi tlie flat known ms Tfie i'Y\ :.-nsr .Pan, ..near the blowhole familiar to visi-. tors i's the scene of photographic • ac.tryrty.';,. .• . - ,■ ; -\./' . ■.- . '.'• Tlie new crater, which is about; 20 feet deep,, contains 20 huge mud boiler.-; throwing', debris ..to a height, of 30 feet, and seven great .steam, holes sendingiLorth thick volumes of steam. The ..eruption sent forth mud, ana sand over, the, hjll behind the inferno,, proving that the Vv shot" must have gone to k height of at least 1000 feet, and, it is reported, that the sand was sent,as faT us Rotomahana, 3 miles away. . Mr. R. $.. Ingle, »#cted with the thermal .district for 20 jrearij of which eight^fvere _' sp;ent at Waimangu ja* Governm»irtj£ume, is oil opinion.thai,the butbursf^;no , spaam,. and that a continuance of activity may be anticipated. The old crater, vjhich. occupied ah aero and a quarter, Inoke out in .1900 and ~ceasco erupting in 1904. .. * f .of : 1000 .feet were' frequent, the record being 1500 feet.' " . y ' ". ... . '., . WEI XaNGTON? April 13. The Seerr-fs'ry of the rTenerfii ,T?o;Offi.cc. rfister.s3.ay raoeived .the. following ] telegram from the postmaster at Ro- ' torua:—..•..-. .... ■ '.''Guide McCormaelc. reports that tJitr "Whirnangu geyser, which has been C&rmaiit f.or years, broke .Qjtft' at 2 p>m. and. gave a brilliant display lasting over an J hour, the Highest shoot being tbou« .400 feet. The round-trip .party had a fe.w : ,xn.iantes previously bee.ti..exaniin:niiig the crater and were not very i"ar away when startled br a terrvne roar. AUdebvi's fell in the opposite directlyto the party." In its former days of activity \7amangii was said to be the greatest and jnosf wonderful geyser is the world. On April 30, 1903, an eruption caused the loss oi four lives.