NEW CAVE DISCOVERED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9105, 3 June 1908, Page 7

NEW CAVE DISCOVERED.

The "Nelson Mail's" Takaka correspondent writes: —A cave of exceptional size and beauty has been discovered by a party of lads who were out on a shooting expedition. If the reports of those who have visited this addition to the many interesting spots in Takaka can be relied upon, the cave is a very large and beautiful one. It is said to be so situated that a*, one time of day the sun shines well into the first cavity, adding the must beautiful colorings and shades to the already magnificent stalactites. The first chamber is a very large /one, the ceilings being lofty; but after proceeding back some 70 feet into the hill another door or entrance admits the visitor to a much larger and still more wonderful apartrrent, which is said to extend a further distance of three chains, the ceilings being also lofty. It is said there are dray loads of round pebbles, varying in size from marbles to eggs, deposited in one section of the cave, caused by the action of the water in some remote ages. Tha new find is situated a!; the buck of the well-known Elarwood's cave, and at present is rather difficult of access, but a sidecutting can be easily made which will make the pve easily approach«d. Mr Harwood, who has charge of tha iormur cave, has visited the stranger, and assures me that the beauties of the new one are not exaggerated. He strongly advised immediate action being *.aken to have it protected from vandalism. '