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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15000, 22 February 1919, Page 2

Letters have been received by tbo '■; Missions .Committee of the Presby+ori:ui .Chuj-ch from the Rev. p. Milne, !0. MieheLsen, and W. V. Iviilno, describing _ the terrific/ hurricane which swept over the. northern part of the New Hebrides and Banks Island on November 10th and 11th. In Air. Milne's district much greater damage was done, and the cccoanut and yam plantations of the natives suffered ! severely. Mr. Michelsen wrote: "1 have passed through many hurricanes during.these 40 years, ,but I have never seen, anything' to be compared with this." Mr. Michelsen also reported that there".had"been a recrudescence of infiuensa in his- district, and that he had been very ill, but was recovering. -Tu.st before the hun'icane the native Christians on Tongoa had-.given'Com-munion collections "amounting to £17 3:s 4d i or the Canton Mission,