Heavy Rain.
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Welcome Falls in Papua.
From Our Own Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, Feb. 8.
NORTH-WEST squalls (Gubas) have been fiercer this year and there has been more rain than usual.
The Laloki and the small streams flowing- down from the Astrolabe are all in flood, and for a day or two traffic to the plantations in the hills was held up.
The road up to the Grass Plot by Rona Falls on the steep slopes of Warirata is difficult to manage after many inches of rain, and the other further on is im passable.
Still, the rain was very welcome; the tanks are all full and the vexed ques tion of water shortage will be shelved for some time. The N.W. season always catches Port Moreby by surprise, and there is much growling at the incon venience it causes, except by ambitious gardeners who are few in Port Moresby, where straggling zinnias and drab shrubs are often pointed out as a splen did achievement after long toil and much sweat.