FLOODS IN FIJI.
■' DESTRUCTION OF . BANANAS AND SUGAR CANE.' [BI TELEGRAPH—rEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEiaTIT.) Suva, February 11. The country districts in the island of Viti are flooded, and . there is great destruction of sugar cane and bananas, v . /' The Rewa River has risen 30 feet.- Round about -Lautoka".. there are lakes of water. The .Ba Mill is inundated.
; [The places mentioned-Ba,'Laut6lca, and the Rewa—contain the principal: mills ■of the Col ' .onial Sugar Co. The present is the rainy season m the islands, and, as tlie Rewa. River is about 150 yards wide, tho rainfall.' must have bton' ; exo^tionally; heavy to' raise' the water level 39
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 430, 12 February 1909, Page 5
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103FLOODS IN FIJI. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 430, 12 February 1909, Page 5
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