SAMOAN STORM.
PLANTATION IS DAM AGED.
Suva, January 4.
Apia reports that the gale at Samoa on January 1 did much damage to plantations. Bread-fruit trees came down in hundreds. The gale raged all day switching from south-east to soutli-west and back again. The roads are blocked with fallen trees and telephone wires are down. It is feared that the damage on the south coast was severe. Many fales are down. Some loss of life is reported. The greatest velocity of the wind was 72 miles per hour, and the lowest reading of the barometer 29.14 in.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2983, 7 January 1926, Page 3
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97SAMOAN STORM. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2983, 7 January 1926, Page 3
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