Phenomenal Rain
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From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, May 30.
FOR three or four days, from May 20, Port Moresby and district experi enced exceptional rains. Mr. J.
Hogan, Commonwealth Weather Officer, at the Kila air-port, reported that the rainfall on the night of May 20 was over 400 points, 250 of which fell between 5 and 6 p.m.
Heavy rains were also recorded in the Sogeri district. The Laloki River over flowed, and considerable damage was done to the river fiats, where the gaol gardens are situated, 10 miles outside Port Moresby. About 100 young orange trees were washed away.
Mr. A. B. Farquhar, who has been manager of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd.’s mill at Lautoka, Fiji, for some years, arrived in Australia in May.
He will shortly take up a new appoint ment as manager of the company’s Vic toria Mill, at Herbert River, Queensland.
Mr. L. J. Warren, manager of the Union S.S. Co.’s branch at Rarotonga, returned to the Cook Islands recently after a short holiday in New Zealand.