“SKY FELL.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 1 May 1928, Page 7

“SKY FELL.”

FLOOD ON DROUGHT. , THE CAPfTdELUGED. CAPETOWN, April i. After living, as he declared, through “millions of tons of water in the air,” Sir Alan Oobhani descended at Simon’s Hay, 20 miles south, of Capetown, at 11.30 o’clock this morning in his. Short I’oris-Royce hying boat. The famous British airman lias thus completed the , outward half of his great survey flight over Africa. A launch from H.M.S. Lowestoft brought Sir Alan and Lady Cobh am 'ashore. The aviator, describing the journey across the Union, said that he hew over an area' of floods in- the eastern section, of the Gape/ Province. He had few glimpses of the earth,, which was covered with rushing water. The very sky appeared to be falling. Sir Alan appeared over Capetown before descending. He was warmlygreeted at a municipal banquet. There has been a marvellous passage from the most intense drought, known in 75 years to the heaviest hood in 1.0 years throughout the Cape Province. Ten inches of rain fell over an enormous area in 63 hours. Dams have burnt, rivers are raging torrents, and many villages are isolated ; but none the less, the. country i> jubilant ■ at, the end of the worst drought in living memory.