Rain By The Bucket
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Nearly 6i in. of rain fell at Fo New Hebrides, in four hours on night of May 10. Other places on island of Efate, the site of Vila, up to 4 in. in the same period bridge between Forari and I (south of Forari), built last year, covered by more than 15 ft. of w< Water over another bridge on island reached a height of more 1 6 ft., and several roads became 1 porarily impassable.
Torrential rain also fell on northern half of New Caledonia May 9 and May 10. Much of land on the east coast was floor and roads and telephone lines v\ put out of action, A ferry cross the River Tchamba on the night May 9 broke from its cable and ' swept down the river. Three of four natives aboard managed to re land; the fourth was drowned.