Suva Has A “Drought”
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Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA, July 31.
AFTER an all-time record rainfall in 1949 and the early part of 1950, some thing approaching a drought de scended on the wet zone of Viti Levu and lasted until mid-July, when the Suva water supply was so low that drastic ra tioning was threatened unless consump tion was reduced.
Heavy rain towards the end of the month has lessened the emergency but has not removed it.
Mr. R. G. Garrett, OBE, who has been in the Gilbert & Ellice Islands Colony for 13 years, mostly at Fanning Island, with Fanning Island Plantations Ltd., passed through Sydney in late July on his way to New Guinea. He will take up a position with Bums Philp (New Guinea) Ltd., at Rabaul.