Privation
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Rhino Beetles Cause
In Wallis Group
A SITUATION approaching
famine has been reported in the 40-square-mile, 13-island Wallis Group, north-east of Fiji, by the Rev. Father M. Teppaz, SM, who is stationed at that French outpost.
Father Teppaz says that Rhino ceros Beetles have now so seriously reduced the coconut crop, which is the main source of income and food, that a large proportion of the 5,000 people is becoming seriously under-nourished.
This news is surprising as the main island of Uvea is well-watered and has always been considered fertile and capable of growing all the usual high-island food crops in abundance.