ISLAND HURRICANE
VESSELS DRIVEN ASHORE. REPORTED LOSS OF LIFE. <RT TEtiEQRAPH— PRESB ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Passengers by the steamer Atua state that the hurricane at Samoa and Fiji caused much damage to crops and shipping. In addition, heavy tropical rains in Fiji flooded the plantation area* worse than had. been known for twenty years. In the upper reaches of the Rewa River district the waters rose almost seventy feet, causing considerable damage to crops. The full fury of the storm was felt in the Taviuni and Vanua Levu districts. At Suva about twenty vessels were driven ashore and damaged. It is stated that a number of coolie* employed on various plantations lost their lives. Large herds of cattle were drowned. The owners of banana plantations sustained enormous loss.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27, 2 February 1915, Page 7
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129ISLAND HURRICANE Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27, 2 February 1915, Page 7
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