HURRICANE AT THE ISLANDS
MUCH DAMAGE TO PLANTATIONS. TAKE MONTHS TO RECOVER. (By Telegraph — Frcss Association.) AUCKLAND, Last Night. News received from Fiji, per s.s. Zealandia, states that the hurricane will bo a great set-back to the colony. Almost the entire group has suffered. Copra has been damaged from the effects of. the wind, and bananas from the floods. It will be six months before the banana plantations will return to their normal conditions, although probably enough fruit is left to satisfy the Sydney and New Zealand markets. The natives have suffered severely from the Hoods, and the hurricane did a great amount of damage. It will be several months before the Savua Bay district will return to normal conditions. The Happaai district has suffered considerably from the fly. The steamer Doringo was stranded on the Lan group, and it will cost several hundreds of pounds to repair the damage.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10559, 15 February 1912, Page 5
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150HURRICANE AT THE ISLANDS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10559, 15 February 1912, Page 5
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