Rain At Last!
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Prom Our Own Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, Dec. 20.
THE first rain since April last fell in a heavy and very welcome shower on December 18. It continued throughout the following day, much to the general relief of the drought-stricken district of Port Moresby, which had suffered from one of the driest spells in the history of the Territory.
Had it not been for the plentiful supply of water from the new water scheme, there would have been extreme discomfort in the town and conditions would have been comparable to those of 1937, when water was carted in by lor ries from the Laloki River and rationed to householders at the rate of 6 gallons
a day.