NIUAFOOU ERUPTION
DAMAGE TO PLANTATION
Australian Press Association.
Fifteen to twenty other craters are LoT^^eTSr^^ 0^ >=imhi e TSV 3 not fierC6" The craters into the air fifteen to twenty feet. There were no casualties, the natives f hS. hillS- About two ttousanl coconut plantations were destroyed. Morns and Hedstroin and Burns, Philp and Co. lost copra and stores in the S' S2OOO. Th 6 IOSS iB est™^el
The lava flow is from 50 to 100 yards; wide. When the Tofua left active eruption had ceased, only ateam and smoke issuing from the craters. The inhabitants include a thousand Tonsans two European storekopers, a French priest, and two Sisters of Mercy
iuuafoou Island is familiarly known among travellers as "Tin Can" Island owing to the manner of landing mails there. Its rocky ; coastline; unbroken by bays makes it practically impossible tor boats to bo launched, and when a steamer calls, with mails it is customary for natives to swim out and carry the mails ashore in sealed tin cans.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 28, 1 August 1929, Page 13
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169NIUAFOOU ERUPTION Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 28, 1 August 1929, Page 13
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