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Floods Damage Fiji Roads and Bridges

From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, December 6 CONTINUOUS and severe weather throughout Viti Levu has caused much damage to the overland road, some parts being under water. Several bridges are down and many culverts have been washed away.

The pontoon at Nausori across the Rewa River has stopped running, and all traffic is held up. The new Rewa bridge, now being built, seems to be undamaged.

Rainfall for November totalled over 26 inches, against a monthly average during the last 50 years of 9.89 inches. There is a possibility that the sugar-cane crop may suffer from the heavy rainfall.

Mr, Eric J. Morgan, a director of Mount Morgan Developments Ltd., sailed from Melbourne for Suva by the Monterey on December 10. He will inspect his com pany’s mining area in Fiji.