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Today Tarawera looks like this - a mountain without a top. But we know that something could happen again in this area. |
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When people went back to the area to look for survivors, this is the kind of thing they saw. On the left is the hotel where Edwin Bainbridge died, and on the right, you can see what the area around looked like. |
This is the schoolmaster, Charles Hazsard's house, with him on the
left, and his family around. The photo was taken only a few months
before the eruption.
And this is what was left after the eruption.
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Some people were very brave about going back to help others, and also gave a lot of help to the survivors. But the government did not do very much at all to help the Maori people, who had suffered most from the disaster. |
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After the eruption, it was not possible to live in that area, or to grow food, and many of the Maori people went cold and hungry. Tourists no longer came to the area, so they could not earn money from that any more. |