Phenomenal Rains Again
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In Fiji
FIJI continues to have phenomenal weather. Very heavy rains, last year, caused a great deal of dam age and dislocation of crops. Then there came a period of drought, in which many planters and most agricultural industries suffered severely.
When the drought broke, the rains came again in more than full measure.
During two or three days, early in April, there were extraordinary falls — Taveuni reports no less than 22 inches during one week-end. As a result, great damage has been done to food crops, and in the coconut plantations; and slips and washaways have been reported on the roads on all the districts affected.
There have been heavy floods in the rivers Wainivesi and Waimaro.