RECENT HURRICANE.
SOME FURTHER DETAILS. Auckland, February 19. The Nukualofa correspondent of the “Herald” writes on February 15 as follows:—The most destructive hurricane ever experienced in the memory of the oldest natives struck the island of Lifuka and other islands of the Haabai group on January 30, and has virtually flattened everything before it, causing damage to the extent of thousands of pounds, destroying property, wrecking boats, levelling churches, and so injuring the cocoanut trees, that it will probably bo three years before the output of copra in these islands reaches the normal level again.
In Lifuka the churches of the Tongan Free Church, Wesleyan and Roman Catholic bodies are levelled to the ground.
From news to hand it is evident that the edge of the hurricane took Tongatabu and Vavnu, while Haabai got the centre. Trade will be affected here to some extent, but in Haabai it will be paralysed for some months to come, I
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 47, 20 February 1912, Page 5
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