Bountiful Rains
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Tahiti Plantations Benefit
From Our Own Correspondent PAPEETE, December 20.
TAHITI experienced an unusual number of rainy days during November, so that the streams, even on the so-called dry belt of the island, are flowing once more.
Floods and washaways are reported from the south-eastern districts, where the precipitation has amounted to sev eral inches a day in some places, but no serious damage has been done. Al ready the hills behind Papeete are resuming their normal greenness and those occupied on the land —as are most of the population here —are hoping that the present season will approach something near the average in the matter of rainfall.
Experience in the tropics proves that the coconut, the principal crop, of course, does not produce to full capac ity on less than about 70 inches of rain per annum.
The recent downfall will also greatly relieve the municipal water supply situation in Papeete and adjacent vil lages. where the shortage had occa sioned great inconvenience in some localities.