Niue Hit by Drought
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From Our Own Correspondent NIUE, Sept. 8.
NO more than a few points ol rain have fallen at Niue sine* June.
The island is beginning to shoy signs of severe drought, with crops withering and bananas failing tc mature.
The village people have no watei at all in their tanks but the people of Alofi are a little more fortunate —a well which was sunk primarilj with the view of constructing ar airstrip on the island has proved s life-saver to both natives and Euro peans.
The Administration has been fill ing 400 gallon tanks mounted or trucks and distributing watei pumped from the well. The supplj is proving reliable under drough conditions and it is believed thal the Resident Commissioner has plans to pipe the water down t( Aloft and thus establish a trust worthy supply of water in the chiel village of Niue.
The natives outside Alofi have hac