SEVERE HURRICANZ.
DAMAGE IN PACIFIC ISLANDS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Feb. 18. The 'Secretary of the Telegraph Department ha; received word from the Wireless station at Raratonga: Wireless report? from Papeete slate' that a terrible hurricane passed over Makateu on January i>. Lives were lost and Air. Marling, direetor of the Plio-;j.!uito Company, disappeared wi.'h the collapse of (he jetty in an extra heavv :-oa. At ;>iv-e;it i;o details are jiuiilnbie. The tail end of the hn-rienne hit P.aratonga and the wind reached a velocity of rousl iy between ftp', and s-.xtv miles an hour. Very lifl7»» damage was done here. '! lie ?oa was very and tlie spray at :ko station .van like ii raging mist
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1920, Page 5
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116SEVERE HURRICANZ. Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1920, Page 5
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