THE ISLAND HURRICANE.
FURTHER NEWS.
By TeWgntph—Freu AsMciatisn. '• Auckland, Last , Night, The Nukualofa correspondent of tfre' Herald writes on February 15 as follows: The most destructive hurricane ever ex-.* perienced in the memory of the oldest natives struck the island of Lifuka and other islands of the Haabai group x>n January 30, and has virtually flattened everything before it, causing damage to the extent of thousands of pounds, destroying property, wrecking boats, levelling churches, and so injuring the cocoanut trees that it will probably be three years before the output of copra'in those islands reaches thei normal level again. In Lifuka the churches of the Tongan Free Church,. Wesleyan and Roman Catholic bodies are levelled 'to the ground. ■ From news to hand it is evident that the edgie: of the hurricane took Tongatabu and VavaUj while Haabai got the centre. Trade will' be affected here to some extent, but in Haabai it will be paralysed for some months to come.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 199, 20 February 1912, Page 5
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160THE ISLAND HURRICANE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 199, 20 February 1912, Page 5
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