METEORS SEEN.
CLOSE TO WIRELESS STATION. NATIVE FIJIAN'S SCARED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SUVA, June 2. Natives on the islands of Taveuni and Vauua Levu were very badly scared on Monday last, when meteors fell about 2 p.m. (Fiji time). The wireless officer at Taveuni reports that about 1.30 p.m., from an angle of 00 degrees, travelling from a northerly direction, a meteor fell in the bush near Wairiki. Mr. Taylor and his native pupils followed the flight., wlien it appeared to them that the meteor would strike the wireless building, but. skimming over, it disappeared in the bush. Mr. Taylor reports that it. was about the si/e of a cricket ball, iiery red, with a yellow corona and an extremely long blue tail. The wireless man reports hearing a loud detonation which severely shook his quarters. The wireless officer reports that at 2 p.m., half an hour after the meteor fefl at Wairiki, meteors fell at Vunimoli and at Vuo, centres in the Laiubasa district.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 136, 12 June 1933, Page 8
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