STORM IN SAMOA
MANY NATIVE HOUSES DESTROYED. Further details received by the Secretary, General Post Office, of. the storm throughout Samoa on New Years Day, show that the wireless station is intact except for the aerial and the counterpoise wire which were brought down. No reports have been received yet from Savaii, but it is believed that considerable damage was caused in Tutuila and the Manua group. In the latter place sixty-three Samoan houses were demolished in one village. ALL WELL AT NIUE Niue Island escaped the storm which swept Samoa oji New Year’s morning, according to a radio message received by the Under-Secretary of External Affairs (Mr. J. D. Gray) yesterday from the Commissioner of Niue. The communication was as follows:— “All is well. The island did not get the storm which struck the Samoan Group on New Year’s Day.”
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 87, 7 January 1926, Page 7
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141STORM IN SAMOA Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 87, 7 January 1926, Page 7
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