Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1916 — Sulphur in New Zealand. [ARTICLE]

Sulphur in New Zealand.

Sulphur deposits are found on White Island, in the Bay of Plenty, on the, coast of the North island of New Zealand, about 30 miles from the mainland. This island, which covers! about 600 acres, attains a height of 900 feat on one sldeand opens to the sea on the other. Its topography indicates an old crater, and the boiling lake op the island, which is one of the aweinspiring sights of New Zealand, Is further evidence of volcanism. After the New Zealand Sulphur company had spent SIOO,OOO in preparation fori mining sulphur in this locality a volcanic disturbance wrecked the camp] and killed ten men.