A SAMOAN STORM
'United Press Atsociatlon.) AUCKLAND. This Day. A report from Apia states that damage by the storm on Ist January was not so great as supposed. The most that the gale did was to break off young leaves and uproot old trees. Mr Cobcroft estimates his loss at 40 acres. A Utamapu plantation .recently taken over by Dr. Lockhart Estele. of England, was badly affected, not, so much in the f)lanted area as in the bush land, where mndreds. of trees were laid tint. On the east coast, of Savaai the damage was comparatively small.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 23 February 1926, Page 5
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97A SAMOAN STORM Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 23 February 1926, Page 5
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