THE FIJI HURRICANE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 370, 22 April 1910, Page 5

THE FIJI HURRICANE.

EIGHT LIVES LOST. IMMENSE DAMAGE TO CROPS. METHODIST LOSSES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The Island mail brings additional particulars of the damage done by the recent hurricane in Fiji, the most serious feature being the joss of eight lives at Rewa. The unfortunates were all natives.

Enormous damage was sustained by the banana crop.

Seven thousand acres of cane has been levelled, and the houses are all more or less damaged, It is estimated that the dantage done to the cane and banana crops will amount to over £BO,OOO. In various districts where rubber trees have been planted, the trees have been destroyed. The Methodist mission at Eewa sustained damage amounting to about £3OOO. and much damage was done to the crops at Navua. The damage to bananas is put down, at £12,000 at Bau.

At other villages in the neighborhood some three hundred houses wove destroyed, and a woman was killed by a house falling on her. In the Rewa province 7115 houses were blown down, and at Dreketi a woman was killed by a falling house.

The losses sustained by the Methodist mission throughout the group are estimated at about £SOOO.