Hurricane-Damaged

The two-storey section of luxury bedrooms at the AAocambo Hotel at Nadi, Fiji, lost its roof in the hurricane in early February, and carpenters were still putting a new roof on when this photograph was taken in mid-AAarch. The hurri cane also uprooted trees, and turned the grounds into a lake. It was just as well that it did. Flying sheets of iron cut power lines and for 24 hours the hotel was with out electricity and therefore with out pumps to keep up the water supply. The hotel staff, with buckets from "Lake AAocambo", formed a constant patrol to flush lavatories in the undamaged part of the hotel.