Three Near Misses
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Fiji Hurricane Season Officially Over
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, April 10.
AT the end of the (official) 1949-50 hur ricane season, Suva and other parts of Fiji look back on three near misses but no major disaster comparable with the December, 1948, hurricane which devastated much of the Lau Group.
Western and south-western Viti Levu suffered a severe buffeting on March 30 when a hurricane circled round the island, leaving a fringe of damage in many Fijian villages, in the Lautoka area and at Nadi, where the airport was given a short, sharp blast.
The wrecking of land communications led to the unusual fact that Suva’s final warning from the Meteorological Office at Nadi reached the capital after the radio message had been picked up by Apia and relayed to the AWA radio station at L.aucala Bay. In the end, the storm missed Suva completely but hit parts of Kadavu, where the police station at Vunisea was very nearly flattened.