Nauru's Drought Breaks—
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Too Late
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Nauru. Jan. 4.
AFTER nearly two years of drought, heavy rains and westerly conditions set in in the first week of January.
The rains are too late, however, to save much of the vegetation along the coastal strip, hundreds of coconut palms having died and been cut down. Nothing short of continuous heavy soaking rain for some weeks will satisfy the situation and give the island a new start.
Mr. T. O Dea, well-known Guinea Air ways pilot, who has spent a couple of months’ furlough in Australia, left Sydney for Salamaua by the “Bulolo” on February 8.