Pacific Volcanoes Active
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Along Fault-Line
THE Pacific “fault-line,” that trail of volcanoes which extends from Japan through the Philippines and East Indies to New Guinea, the New Hebrides, Tonga and New Zea land, appears to have been more active than usual in recent months.
New Guinea reported, in February, further minor eruptions in the St.
Andrews Strait area south of Manus, and in the Lake Loloru region of southern Bougainville.
At about the same time a Jap anese fishing vessel reported a violent submarine eruption east of the Philippines: and Tonga re ported that its intermittent per former, Falcon Island —which has been eroded to well below sea-level for some years—was again in eruption, and was building up early this year.
In New Zealand, Mt. Ngauruhoe and White Island (off the east cost of the North Island) have been performing at intervals for some time past. t Mr. Harry Gladstone, a Victorian gold prospector, passed through Port Moresby south-bound early March with £15,000 worth of gold which he had gathered on Misima Island, Eastern Papua, in 22 months. He said he had beeen lucky in striking a rich pocket of 1,000 ounces of fine gold.