HONG KONG DROUGHT ENDS
GREAT ANXIETY REMOVED. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Shanghai, July 12. Rain to-day broke the drought which had prevailed in Hong Kong for the past month, removing the greatest anxiety experienced in the colony for many years and obviating the necessity for the continuation of the extraordinary measures employed to provide residents with water, including the wholesale importation of water by aeroplane. Efforts to burst the hovering rainclouds had been unsuccessful.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1929, Page 16
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