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Fiji Cleans Up After Hurricane

From Our Own Correspondent THE work of cleaning up after the floods and hurricane, which brought such a trail of disaster in its wake to Fiji, is going ahead with cel erity.

The Government has shown an ap preciation of the position by losing no time in cleaning up the wreckage and encouraging the natives and Indians to rebuild their homes. The roads and damaged bridges are also being brought back to normal, and the traffic is now being conducted as before.

Owing to the depression, and the decrease of exports, the Colony is find ing it difficult to find money for all the work, and great economy is neces sary to cope with the demands. Outside of the public works, for which loan money is available, few new public works will be possible for some time.

The C.S.R. Co. has also made fine progress in repairing the serious dam age done to its properties, and many carpenters are busy now rebuilding houses, repairing mill buildings, etc.

As an example of the damage done, chiefly by the floods, at Ba, it may be mentioned that, between the mill and the store of Morris Hedstrom, no fewer than 27 houses of Europeans and others were absolutely destroyed. The sud denness of the flood suggests a cloud burst in the hills behind the settlement.