HURRICANE AT SAMOA.
PLANTATIONS DE VASTATED
Mr Ivan Nelson, principal of Messrs Nelson and Robertson, who returned to -fctydriey- last week; was at ~ Tutiiila (Samoa) during the recent hurricane which visited the group. The storm, he states, raged with terrific fury, and played havoc with the cocoanut plantations and native houses at Manua especially. There was no loss of. life, but native food supplies were destroyed by the violence of the storm, which is described as the heaviest experienced at the islands for yeaa's. The hiurrica-ne almost completely disorganised the interisland shipping traffic, and some exciting times were experienced by coasting craft.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13069, 8 May 1913, Page 5
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102HURRICANE AT SAMOA. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13069, 8 May 1913, Page 5
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