"Wintry" Weather In
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Western Samoa
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, August 12.
SAMOA recently had the coldest spell the oldest residents can remember.
Apia Observatory has announced that the lowest temperature recorded at the Observatory at Mulinu’u since July, 1931, was recorded on the morning of July 19—the thermometer reading 66.5.
The lowest minimum temperature ever recorded in Apia was in August, 1917, when the thermometer read only 63.0 The normal July temperature is 77.1.
An unpleasant result of the abnormally cold weather was a widespread epidemic of colds, coughs, catarrh and dengue fever, affecting old and young, Europeans and Samoans. The whole of Apia beach has been sniffling for the last four weeks and the sale of cough mixtures and ’flu remedies has reached previously unknown dimensions.