Hurricane in N. Hebrides
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A HURRICANE which had formed in the Rotuma area some days earlier crossed the Loyalties and New Caledonia on March 4-5. It was reported in Sydney as “severe,” and word was received there of at least two small vessels being lost, though without loss of life. One vessel was the luxury 100-ton passenger launch Philante 11, of Noumea, ashore on Lifu, Loyalties; and the other the small vessel, Orion, on a reef somewhere in the New Hebrides.
Phenomenal Weather
The last week of February and first week of March have been re markable for cyclones all over the Southwest Pacific, from the Fiji group westwards to the Queensland coast.
Queensland has been badly dam aged, and accounts of Islands damage are beginning to trickle in.