RAVAGED BY DISEASE
ISLAND IN THE SOLOMONS. terrible toll of lives. (United Press Association.) ' (By. Electric Telegraph.— Copy right.) . V SYDNEY, August G. (Received August 6. at 5.3 p.m.) Passengers who arrived by the Calulu to-day told of life at Vanikoro, an island in the Solomon group. ■ They stated that, five yc&rs ago the estimated -population of the island, waa 6000, but now .it is less than 100, measles and influenza having killed large numbers. Fever was also responsible for a number of deaths. There are about 25 white settlers.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20789, 7 August 1929, Page 9
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