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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1951Vol. XXI, No. 10

Mt. Lamington Expected

p. 85 · Read in the full issue

More Eruptions From Mt. Lamington Expected

WHILE in Brisbane on his way home to Port Moresby from Canberra re cently, Colonel J. K. Murray, Ad ministrator of Papua-New Guinea, said that Mr. G. A. Taylor (P-NG volcano logist) had predicted that Mt. Lamington would again be in eruption either at the end of April or at the beginning of May.

Colonel Murray said Mr. Taylor, who had a seismic station 71 miles from the crater, hoped to predict the new eruption “with at least two days to spare.”