VILLAGES WIPED OUT
VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS AT NIUAFOOU NO LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) SUVA, September 21. The volcanic eruptions on Niuafoou, in the Tongan group, have burned out the mam village, Angaha, including all Government buildings, the wireless station, trading stores, copra sheds, missions, and boats. There is no loss of life or serious injuries, and in other parts of the island the main food crops have been saved. Volcanic craters are still smoking, but activity is dying down. Angaha was the home of the famous “Tin Can Mail, ’ and was the landing place when difficult conditions on the rock-bound coast permitted. The village of Aleleuta, behind Angaha, built by the inhabitants of the village of Fotu, which was wiped out in the 1929 eruption, has now been wiped out. A Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot from Suva reported yesterday that the new lava flow threatened to link up with the older flows, drastically reducing what remained of the fertile parts of Niuafoou.
The Tongan Government’s schooner Hifofua arrived with a relief party yesterday.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24987, 23 September 1946, Page 5
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