HURRICANE AT SUVA
OPIMON OF MAYOR. PIU)BABLF; DAMAGE TO-CROPS.. (B'j I'ei-egrapk—Fress Association.) AUCKLAND, Last.Night, The Hon. J. B ( . Turner, Mayor oL Suva.,s and a; member of the Legislative Council of Fiji,, who is at present in Auckland, .a cable to-day stating that a gale -was blowing oyer Suva, but that his fiome ihere had not btfen damaged.' Mr Turner informed a.. .Star report tliat the;. Colonial Sugar. Company have a large mill at' Yabasa., which is a small town in .the Island of Vanii Levu. Its crops are mostly sugar cane, and they have, no doubt, suffered severely. There are a number of stores at Ya>basa, and the population, is between. 4.00 and 500. The Rewa is a waterway about as large as the Waikato, and it drains the eastem side of Yenti Levu. The Colonial Sugar Company ihave also a mill there, and crops consist of sugar cane and bananas. The cane crops were cut at , ( tihc end of the year, and some of the crops planted five or six months ago were coming on well. The banana plantations axe on liver and lowlyang land, and they Avould be badly damaged by the storm winds.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10546, 31 January 1912, Page 5
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196HURRICANE AT SUVA Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10546, 31 January 1912, Page 5
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