Drought Hits Samarai

From Our Own Correspondent

Samarai, Nov. 15.

DROUGHT conditions still rule in Samarai and the position is serious.

Nearly every household is carting water and in some cases residents have little or no drinking water. October rainfall was only 64 points; highest tem perature for the month was 87 degrees, on the 28th.

The drought seems to be universal— natives along the north-east coast of the mainland have lost their gardens for this year and all their seed for next year’s plantings.

Commander Alvord S. Rosenthal, son of Major-General Sir Charles Rosenthal.

KCB, CMG, DSO, VD, Administrator of Norfolk Island, has been awarded the DSO. He is serving with the RAN in the Mediterranean.