FRENCH BORROW OUR MT RUAPEHU?

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 272, 31 January 1989, Page 16

FRENCH BORROW OUR MT RUAPEHU?

Anyone else noticed something familiar about the Perrier ads in recent Listeners and some glossy mags? Gossip has! The ad has a picture of a Perrier bottle next to a picture of a mountain and pond, and in the caption it says "Bottled in Vergeze, where it springs pure and sparkling from its source near the volcanic mountains of the Auvergne." Now it doesn't actually say where the mountain in the picture is, but Gossip could swear it's our own Mt Ruapehu. Perrier's volcano has a peak similar to the Girdlestone, a high ridge just like the one above Turoa, a saddle next to something like Paretetaitonga, lots of ridges and gullies, and an area that looks like the triangle. Even the pond looks just like the tarn near the boardwalk on the Waitonga Falls track. ( Gossip knows this because Gossip' s a tramper (sometimes!).) So Gossip reckons there's either a sister volcano to Ruapehu in the Auvergne, or Perrier has borrowed ours. If they have it's a good thing Ruapehu has been associated with such a fine product!