DAMAGE IN COOK ISLANDS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20168, 21 February 1931, Page 17

DAMAGE IN COOK ISLANDS.

MEAT DESTRUCTION BY mf hurricane. . P FRUIT crops ruined. . \t* ' ASBOCIATIOH TSLEGBAJ£.) ' WELLINGTON, February 20. , . PConfirmatory advice has been reMgfred by the Minister for the Cook Sir Apirana Ngata, from the Lftondedt Commissioner at Rarotonga, WW mrr _ . j e serious damage ICook Islands by the rehich is situated 140 miles Rarotonga, suffered very he banana crop was en»d. The orange crop and suffered very heavily, eadfruit trees sustained which they will take er. The Taro and Puraka , have been flooded,, and indated the village of If a mile inland, pplies of the island, which most beautiful and fer;roup, have been almost nolished, and it is estirithin ten days the people ed to a fare of coconuts d the question of relief our,and rice from New ceiving attention. " las a population of 1500 i resident agent, a. Euronurse, and a school tationed there. . . itself has also sustained , about 40 per cent., of . rop and one-third of the having been lost. Qtherlamage was done, ence of any comnmnicaa northern group, which stands of Penrhyn. Rakapnka, Manihiki, Nassau, jw, it is not known dsun&go was sustained* ieved, from the direction sane, that they possibly Island, in the southern ,■ 'is the only other island ; Group, is not connected It suffered havoc from » ne years ago, and the have not yet been fully ds .of the lower; group, ' and Manaaiav- report 'they experienced high: ids. they suffered no