Western Solomons
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Mystery Eruptions In
From Our Own Correspondent
Honiara, Nov. 1
A MYSTERIOUS volcanic disturbance has been occurring in the ocean to the south of Tetepari in the Western Solomons. The eruption often occurs several times in a week and is then absent for a month or so.
Local natives say there is an audible explosion, accompanied by earthquake shocks, with a pillar of “smoke” at the eruption, first white, then turning black.
It is succeeded by a heavy swell on the ocean, and pumice stone is occasionally washed ashore.
There are several well-known areas of volcanic activity in th Western Solomons, but this is the only one so far reported erupting through the sea.
Wolaroi College, Orange, NSW, now has two students from the Pacific Islands— one is Gordon Lee, a Chinese lad from Rabaul, NO, and the other is Ariedada Akuwo, a Nauruan ,who is known to the other students as Sam.