Anna Lucas carrying Hazel Lucas standing by a soda Spring , Kotuku - .1926-27.

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DescriptionKotuku - 1926-27 - Soda Spring
Anna Lucas carrying Hazel Lucas.Date of Photo1926-27.Map^[1]Contributor Wayne Garraway

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Location (city or town)KotukuPersonAnna LucasHazel LucasEventSoda Spring , Kotuku - Anna Lucas carrying Hazel Lucas.1926-27.

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Date Created4th April 2020CommentsJessie Guy Youve got some great photos Wayne
Wayne Garraway Thank you. I'm just so pleased I can share them with everybody.

Jessie Guy Just keep them coming

Laura Mills Detlaff Wayne Garraway thanks so much. All your fab pics are on our website. Heather Newby and I will share them gradually onto here so they don't get lost. Jessie Guy there are more on the home page of our website if you want to look now :)
Laura Mills Detlaff We will also re-post some highlights :)

Wayne Garraway Laura Mills Detlaff sorry. Will stop for now. Just a few from Orwell Creek now.

Geoffrey Bell Wayne Garraway well done

Laura Mills Detlaff Wayne Garraway we love it

Heather Newby Wayne Garraway thanks Wayne

Linda Hughes Is that still there?

Noeline Pinn It comes and goes. My sister Zelda has a great photo of it the last time it appeared.

Heather Falconer Lovely clear photos, thank you for sharing.

Noeline Pinn
Ian Andrew Jonson I understood that they tried to bottle it but it blew the glass and they gave up. I remember when it oozed out of the hill behind the gusher. Came and went. Was a fascinating area.

Trevor Molloy
I remember the soda spring very well , we used to sip it but never drank it , it had a soda taste , but that might have something to do with the oil wells being close to it .

Ken Meadowcroft
Trevor can you tell me about what happened to the oil out there. I remember them drilling as the oil flowed out of the ground. Is that right.

Wayne Rogers
Would that Spring still be there,as a matter of Interest,,they are Good indicators, Aquafers, one Also on the Okuru Haast

Heather Newby
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Wayne Rogers fascinating..these springs

Wayne Rogers
Heather Newby Had a digger on farm, Making track, Cracked open Rock Face, the water was so clear,pure pipe to House, Just magic,

Heather Newby
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Wayne Rogers that would be amazing!

Geoffrey Bell
Wayne Rogers One of the springs is still there,

Noeline Pinn
It is difficult trying to describe the springs, gusher, gas hole, oil wells, petrified pebbles and water wheel that were there for years, but so many changes over the years. Wonder what the future holds for the area. Love the photo of Mrs Lucas and Hazel.

Cyril Hector
I remember my dad filling an oil bottle down the bore hole in the early 1960s. We kept it for ages and when it had settled it was pretty good looking oil.

Heather Newby
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Cyril Hector dad used to get a half G of oil from down under Dobson mine.He used to oil the bike chains with it.

Wayne Rogers
Cyril Hector Friend told me they used oil Seaped out of Capped of well,Chain Saw bar oil, True Story

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Anna Lucas carrying Hazel Lucas standing by a soda Spring , Kotuku - .1926-27.

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