The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-05-16
STORM
HELPING CROPS
Reports Indicate That Rain Has
Been General Throughout
the Territory.

Oahu was drenched from Koko Head
to Kahuku yesterday AFTERNOON by a
heavy rainfall which broke over the
island about two clock and continued
with more or less severity for nearly
two hours. The force of the fall and
the subsequent torrents which filled city
streets and country roadsides and
gulehes are believed to be due to a
eloudburst. 1t is thought that not a
portion of the island escaped the down.
pour.
Storm Has Been General.
Reports from the outer portions of
this island rs well as letters received
from the other islands. since Sunday,
supplemented yesterday by wireless
messages, show that every island in
the group has been visited since last
Saturday by unusually heavy rains,
which have filled watersheds, reservoirs
and given young cane and other agri-
cultural growths the impetus they need.
cd The only drawback in the agricul-
tural districts was the preventing of
further field development
Manager Cockett of the Kula. Maui.
ranch, wrote Tuesday that the rainfall
was tbn oIJ .fnshiorcd Iind .tf. ,,as
tLe lnmaoino sort of roin wo nso1 to
cot vcnrs and yr,rs non ;, ,vro,o NJ
Gockett.
lie s,id that Knl, bod M, h.or r;s;,.
cd Inv sucb a foli Of ra;, ~ ~. aa'i
thot il wonia bceo,rnIisb S LA "n ~
GOOD for mn ogr;cnI.n,.i ,rnd,,ats mo
entire. island If Mini v,oJ ,ni,;oatods ,o
= droncbina tb,, nun, ia '" 1877 e.,
for tla natt Two vn,rs ''''
A W irortor ,n,,n,,,ar Of a., pon,.o.
Ranch an II,w,;i - cha. ,h, a,',iro
ranch rerioua from Kon, ~ iIanni.no
yos vis;toJ I,y = La.,,,, i,c.,iI a''',r',,
ing thrco ;ncbo. .inSo SnnJn,, "'0'"s
MANAGER Movers NJ Woianne plouto.
zion Onhn st,fns +ha+ on TmasIai ,'a tro
inches and on WoJnosJ.,, omo nm vs.
min foII nm tbo In,,,on t,,i,I, 90 w.;
,non pIaptntion OIL. 400 ;,oi,o, en-
in tbis narticnior soStio "0 d I"rpv ,hn
,n+irc na.t vonr ol,bnnoh tha -.
-egions wo,c nc..ss;onaiI,, I ill., Ipta
with fain. AZ newly plouahed section
on the Waianae cstate shows the pocu-
liiir eileetssof the fn5mer dry state and
Che l,tesmt drencbed situation. The
'arth 9in the dry season cracks. Since
Jei1iglploughed Land soaked by rain some
Of the creSices have opened wide and
there is room enough in some of them
to drop a small auto out of sight. g.
Manager ,Goodale of WaiGlua Plan
tation states that 2.63 inches of rain
fell from Monday morning to Wednes-
day morning.
II. NJ. Won Holt of the O. r. & l..
20. land department heard yesterday
shortly after noon that although there
had been considerable rain, the sun
was breaking through the clouds over
Kahaku.
"FIns looks like breaking-up rain
TINS afternoon, said Nr. Won Holt.
bod am. Tn,,sm,I a,norionaa ,' u, un Iaat
fo,y daS. NJ (, =, ,iIi5 I'm, W. ,
oroI ,Ii,,,,,-is. Mn d., -, FL,
s,,,ao, az o,,,,tr,, an .,5 M
,,ool. Ss thy a., H.; '' S"ii I'm us
tho Nanot,,,ii i;str;,. '''' az wv
60.
e0olh ee"erS hanole flooo.
ih' Sb''V' ~ atcil ausldlhtu tue HcdNg
Hood in good shape. The storm sewers
carried OIL the floods and only few
places in the business section were
toodod.
At the Junction of King and Alakea
streets the surface waters tested the
storm sewers to their capacity.
In addition to the King and Alaken
streets catch basins emptying into the
storm sewer whose outlets is in the