RAIN AT HONGKONG.
SERIOUS DROUGHT BROKEN.
GREAT ANXIETY RELIEVED
Australian ntul N.Z. Press Association. SHANGHAI, July 12
A fall of rain to-day broke the drought that has prevailed in Hongkong for the past month, and removed the greatest anxiety experienced in the colony for years. It has obviated tlio necessity for a continuation of the extraordinary measures, employed to provide residents with water, including the wholesale importation of water by aeroplane. Efforts to burst the hovering raincloud were recently made unsuccessfully.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20307, 15 July 1929, Page 11
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