HURRICANE IN THE ISLANDS
ENORMOUS LOSSES REPORTED. (By Telegraph—Press Aesocifitlon. l » Auckland, February 2. Passengers by the steamer Atua 'state that the hurricane at Samoa and Fiji caused much damage to crops and shipping. In addition heavy tropical rams m Fiji flooded the plantation areas worse -than had been known for twenty years. In the "tipper reaches of the Rewa River district the waters rose almost seventy feet causing considerable damage to crops. ■ The full fray of the storm waa felt in the Taviuni and Vanua Levu districts. At Suva about twenty vessels wero driven ashore and damaged. It is stated that a numberof coolies employed on various plantations lost their lives. Large herds of cattle wero I drowned. The' owners of banana plantations sustained enormous loss.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2375, 3 February 1915, Page 5
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127HURRICANE IN THE ISLANDS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2375, 3 February 1915, Page 5
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