FIJI. TWENTY FEET OF RAIN. 26 Oct 1914. If this happened a hundred years later they’d be crying 20 ft. of tears, and come begging for another 20 million dollar handout from our gullible leaders.
TWENTY FEET OF RAIN. (1914, October 26). The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 – 1929), p. 4. Retrieved October 30, 2019, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59271380/4563702#
Where is all the rain that should be falling over Australia?
Perhaps Fiji is getting our share. People who are disposed to grumble, should be interested in the following letter from Fiji.
The writer, who lives in Taviani, Fiji, states that the rain in his district totals over 20ft! “At the low level at Salia Levu, one of Mr. Coubrough’s estates on this island (he writes), the regis-
tered rainfall to October 6 is over 220 in.
What it has been at centre places, such as Garawalu, the good Lord only knows. It must have been at least 260 in.
It looks as if before the year is out, that we shall have between 260 and 270 in. at the low level.
How would you get on with that? It is far and away the worst year for rain I have ever seen in Fiji in over 40 years experience.
The unfortunate planters cannot get their ‘copra’ made up. As I write I am looking out of my window, and the rain is pouring down, with half, a gale of wind blowing.”