SAMOAN HURRICANE.
NOT SO BAI) AS REPORTED.
COCOA GROWERS SUFFER MOST.
.From Apia comes a report that the damage done by the storm on New Year’s Day is not so great as some people were led to believe.* It was, said that the east coast of Savaii suffered very badly, but; now it" is said that the damage was very small. A.. trader from that district said-that the reports of the damage had been exaggerated. The storm was not nearly as, fierce as others he had known, when the coconuts were blown from the trees, and leaves and trees were split and broken. Th most that the recent gale did was to break off the young leaves'.and uproot small, trees.
The. heaviest losers are the cocoa growers. Mr Cobcroft estimates, his loss-'at forty acres, anil he thinks-it will cost 30s an acre to straighten things out. The Utumapu plantation, wfhich was recently taken over by Dr. Lockhart Cottle, of England, was badly affected. In the bush lands hundreds of trees were! laid flat.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4943, 24 February 1926, Page 2
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173SAMOAN HURRICANE. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4943, 24 February 1926, Page 2
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