[?]ril Showers. ..
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In Fiji this year they didn’t bring forth Spring flowers but umbrellas and curses.
The month’s score at one spot in the Waini buka Valley teas 63.51 inches of rain—17 of them in one day.
By comparison Suva had a drought. Just the bare 41.88 inches.
April is at the end of the wet season in Fiji and usually not unduly damp. This year Suva had a drought all through the wet season— and then at the end got one-third of the aver age year’s supply of rain in one month.
Road and air travel was disrupted. Our photo graphs show the air terminal building at Nausori, surrounded by floods from the Rewa River; and a Fiji Airways plane on a diminish ing area of dry airstrip, also at Nausori. Plane services were cancelled for several days.
Lower left photo shows all that was left of the Dobuilevu Bridge, on the King’s Road, after flood waters had ripped out decking and steel girders.
Photos: Rob Wright, of Fiji PRO.