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That Weather!
WHILE Suva, Fiji, was having the wettest September on record (see elsewhere this issue), other parts of the South Pacific were having record dry weather. By November, however, the drought had broken in many places.
New Britain, New Ireland, parts of the Cook Group all reported droughts. In South-east Papua less than one-third the average rainfall had been received up to October; and Wau, NG, was having its driest spell ever—the rainfall for the previous four months was four inches down on the average.
By mid-October heavy rain had broken the unprecedented drought in the NG Highlands at Goroka — rainfall for the first nine months of the year was 14 inches below normal. , In the first two weeks of October, Madang, about 90 miles away on the coast, had had 6J inches of rain.
By October the bushfire danger had , become serious in New Caledonia and the Noumea fire service was busy throughout the month.