BENEFIT IN A CYCLONE
Not long ago a cyclone made its appearance in Palestine. It was actually a welcome visitor to everybody except (ho orange-growers, whoso loss amounted to about £75,000. There wero so many windfalls that at Beersheba oranges were sold at. twelve a penny. Every cloud has a silver lining, and those the cyclone brought to Palestine gave to the parched country tho gift of Isins. of sorely-needed rain. Presently the whole country was transformed. Flowers of all hues appeared, lupins, irises, tulips, pheasanteyo narcissi, scarlet anemones, globe hyacinths, cyclamen, and Elijah’s juniper flowers. The desert was made to blossom as the rose.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 151, 29 June 1931, Page 8
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