STORM AT FIJI.
AUCKLAND, April 21. There was a severe storm at Fiji on March 28 Inst. The island of Kanacia suffered considerable damage. The cocoanut trees in some gullies were wiped out, and on the hill trees bearing heavily suffered severely. Tho crop that would hav« fallen about the end of June and July is all down. The nuts are too young to make up for copra. The .cutter Turagabui was totally wrecked at Moala Kataogo. A vessel of 12 tona drifted from Wainyabia Lakeba with fouy - of a crew, and tho native captain has not been heard of since.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3397, 23 April 1919, Page 15
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101STORM AT FIJI. Otago Witness, Issue 3397, 23 April 1919, Page 15
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