BSI Wet Season Begins
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With Floods
From Our Own Correspondent • honi ARA, Jan. 22.
BNORMAL rams for a fortnight opening the wet or Nor’-west season i to • the worst flooding of Guadalcanal rivers on January 6 7 8 Sir C^i h6 t^ ar ' time bri dges were erected’
Rlv £- was the chief culprit. In spite of combined American and British reinforcement late last month of the br?d^ ree fhl ear "°J d A m eri can-built timber bridge, the entire 200-feet length of a^J mg and maston matting was SSrtrf&fiT?. downstream ° n «» r * ver rose more than 12-feet, over w b / nks hal - f a mile each si de, buried Henderson airfield under a foot nnr^ofi 1 * a ?i? st retched a mile wide where fnto the sea 6 separate mouths empty Luckily the little-used upper Lunga bridge stood up to the strain of the flood —mainly because the main flood channel tvJo b K 1^S b. d v, bri i? fallen trees broke over the bank higher up and made a detour n £ w . P recar i°usly carrying essential camn KjS 6 ? th s US headquarters at LST’s tS u d 1 and Kukum ’ wher e US v o S ßbna £: ly ’ he - BSI Government will fw?}% Ce missing bridge with one of the five Bailey bridges imported last year but the equipment essential for their erection has not arrived yet.