AN ALARMING PROPHECY.
CONCERNING NEW Z€ALANO
BIG BLOW-LP i'REDICTED
CRsc.ivcd Mav 9, 11.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 9. Professor Perch al, vuicanoiogist, ol Freiburg University, who is returning to Germany, predicts a blow-up in New 2baland, one perhaps more destructive than tho faanous Taravvera. The cause of volanie energy in New Zealand is along a line of fault, running from the middle of tho liay of Plenty across the North Island from north-north-east to south-south-east. He says lie noticed-a great increase in the activity of Rotorua since hip visit in 1897. * From tin's, with other indications, he aas deducted that at outbreak is likely. He declared that if the magnetic pull operates over, that region an oruption will occur. Tarawera was the safety valve of that area, but th-s crater of Tarawera had filed up*, and"had probably become ftnaSly extinct. Tho re mus: be a vent for the volcanic energy, but it.'was impossible to say whore it would break forth.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 May 1913, Page 5
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159AN ALARMING PROPHECY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 May 1913, Page 5
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