Fiji's Cool Season
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Cut Short This Year
Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA. June 14.
A MAJOR cause of complaint in the wet zone of Viti Levu is that every year the cool season appears to get shorter.
This year, for instance, hot days and airless nights lasted until the second week in June —when the temperature divjed and everyone caught a violent cold.
The Meteorological Office, however, has announced pontifically that the weather in May was “normal,” except for a de ficiency in rainfall. This last, however, did not constitute a calamity—Suva had 8.5 in. compared with the normal 57 years’ average of 10.67 in.