RECENT GALE AT SUVA.
CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE. f*Y TELEGRAPH — VRES3 ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 30th January. The Hon. J. B. Turner, Mayor of Suva, and a member of tho Legislative Council of Fiji, who is at present in Auckland, received a cablegram to-day stating that a gale was blowing over Suva, but thai his homo thero has nofc been damaged. Mr. Turner informed a Star representative that the Colonial Sugar Company have a large mill al Labasa, which is a small township on tho Island of Vanuft L«vu. The crops are > mostly sugarcane, and these have no doubt (suffered severely. Thero are a number of stores at Labastt, antf tho population- is between I 400 and 500. The R«wa River is a waterway about as large ub tho Waf. ka£b, and it drains the eastern side of Viti Levu. The Colonial Sugar Company have also a mill there, and th© crops consist of sugarcane and bananas. The cane crops were cut at the end of the year,_ and some of the cr.ops planted five or six months ago were coming on well. Banana plantations are up river on low-lying land, and they would be badly damaged by the stormy winda.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 26, 31 January 1912, Page 2
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197RECENT GALE AT SUVA. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 26, 31 January 1912, Page 2
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