HONG KONG DROUGHT
RAINFALL REMOVES LONG ANXIETY EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES (Australian and N.Z. Press AssociationJ Reed. 9 a.m. SHANGHAI, Friday. Rainfall today broke the drought which has prevailed at Hong-Kong for the past month, removing the greatest anxiety experienced in the colony for years, and obviating the necessity of continuation of the extraordinary measures employed to provide residents with water, including wholesale importation of water, and futile airplane efforts to burst a hoveriug rain cloud.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 714, 13 July 1929, Page 9
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