Avarua Has Waterspout
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NOT to be outdone by New Hebrides, Fiji and Papua in natural phenomena this hurricane >eason, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, produced a waterspout and what is Jescribed as a tornado, in mid-April.
The waterspout was about 150 /ards in diameter when a mile off shore and then, from what can be leduced from the sketchy reports, >assed inland near Avarua, the chief Own, as a tornado that wrecked hree houses, killed one person and njored six. It cut a path about 200 fards wide for half a mile. Fortun itely the area was sparsely populated.
The Maui Pomare which was in he roadstead was undamaged.