DEATHS FROM STORM.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20176, 3 March 1931, Page 9

DEATHS FROM STORM.

HURRICANE IN FIJI. OFFICIAL TOTAL ANNOUNCED. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received March 2nd, 7 p.m.) SUVA, March 2. The official list of dead as a result of the hurricane totals 160, including four Europeans. Many are missing. STORM STILL RAGING. . SUVA, March 2. " The hurricane is passing over tlie Penang sugar district* in the north of Suva, travelling south-east. There is | a gale only at Suva. The Rewa river, i which recently flooded, is rising again, and residents are removing to higher ground. AUCKLAND RESIDENT'S EXPLANATION. (PKEBS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAH.) AUCKLAND, March 2. In reference to the hurricane at Fiji, an Auckland solicitor, who has recently returned from Ba,' states that ■the cable news that only two houses were left standing is highly improbable. The houses referred to as being destroyed must be dwellings of Indians on the river banks, as European residences were not subject to floods. The sugar cane centre of Drasa also is not liable to floods. i DEATH OF SISTER.

AUCKLAND WOMAN RECEIVES WORD. *} ** (rasas association tblegbAm.) AUCKLAND, March 2. Advice has been received by Hias A. J". Morrish, of Avondale, that her sister, Mrs W. J. Mansell, was drowned at Ba in the floods ■which accompanied the hurricane last week, and that Mr Mansell had been admitted to hospital seriously injured. The message also stated that there was an unconfirmed report that Mis? Mansell, aged 28, Miss Morrish'a niece, had been killod at Levuka. Mr Mansell has had charge of ,tho butchery at the Colonial Sugar Refill* ing Company's works at Ba for the past twenty years. He formerly lived at Auckland.