FIJI DISASTER
200 DEATHS CONFIBM ED. (Australian Press Association.) SUVA, Feb. 28. A terrible night was spent at Ba, on February 21st. Floods, which were backed up by a rising tide and by wind, washed away many houses. Daylight revealed that only two bouses were loft. Seventy dead Indians were recovered •tt Drasa'. All of' them were buried in
onc grave. - At tlie sugar cane centre ol 1,10 Colonial Sugar Company, on the north side of Vitti Levu, where there were 150 souls, only twenty-five could be accounted tor. The total deaths are at least two hundred.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1931, Page 6
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97FIJI DISASTER Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1931, Page 6
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