Volcanos Come and Go
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Prom Our Own Correspondent HONIARA, April 30.
AN intermittent eruption of sul phurous vapour has been ob served in Marovo Island in the Western Solomons. This synchro nises with similar eruptions from the underwater volcano which re cently rose from the sea and sank again some miles south of Van gunu Island.
Marovo Island is in a direct line with the site of the underwater volcano, the line passing through Vangunu Island (where a quiescent volcano, Mt. Vangunu, exists! and covering a distance of approxi mately 40 miles.
It is assumed that the eruption of the undemater volcano and on Maravo Island act as safety valves for intense volcanic activity in the area between the two points of eruption. But the native inhabit ants of Vangunu Island are, not unnaturally, somewhat perturbed.
A Maori football team will tour Fiji in 1954 —not in 1953 as requested by the Fiji Rugby Union. The tour cannot be made this year as the absence of the Maoris from New Zealand would prejudice the pos sible selection of some of them for a planned All Black tour of the British Isles.