THE HURRICANE IN THE FIJI GROUP.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13714, 22 April 1910, Page 8

THE HURRICANE IN THE FIJI GROUP.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.)

AUCKLAND, April 21

To-days mail brings additional particulars of the damage done by the recent hurricane in Fiji, the most serious feature being tlie IO6S of eight lives at Rewa. Enormous damage was done to the banana crop thero. Some 7000 acres of cane have been levelled, and the houses aro ell more or less damaged. It is estimated that the damage done to the cane and banana crops will amount to over £80,000. In. the districts where rubber trees have been planted, the trees have been destroyed. The s£ethod__t Mission at Row* sustained damage amounting to about £3000, and much damage was done to the crops. At Navua the damago to the banana crop is put down at £12,000. At Bau and other villages in the neighbourhood some 300. houses were destroyed, and a woman was killed by a bouse falling on her. In Rewa province 715 houses were blown down, and at Dieketi a woman was killed by a falling house. The losses [ sustained by the Methodist. Mission throughout the group are estimated at about £5000.