HURRICANE IN FIJI.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10025, 22 April 1910, Page 5

HURRICANE IN FIJI.

EIGHT LIVES LOST. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 21. The island mail brings additional pirn'culara of the damage done by the recent hurricane in Fiji. The most serious feature was the loss of eight lives at Rewa. The unfortunates were all natives. Enormous damage was sustained by the banana crop " thare. Some 7,000 acres of cane has heen levelled, and the houses are all more or less damaged. It is estimated .that the damage done to the can.3 and banana crops will amount to over £BO,OOO. In various districts whera rubber trees have been planted thu trees have been destroyed. The Methodist mission station at Rewa sustained damage amounting to about £3,000. Much damage was done to the crops at Navua. r lhe damage to banams is put down at £12.000. At Bau and other villages in the neighbourhood some three hundred houses were destroyed, and a woman was killed by a house falling on her. In the Rewa province 795 houses were blown down, and at Dilketi another woman was al3o killed bv a falling louse. The losses sustained by the Methodist mission throughout the Group are estimated at about £5,000. ■