The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-12
Recent SI0RNHAS
OeeAS|ONEDlDSS
IOSUGhRGR0WERS
Heavy Rains and High Winds
Have Been Reported From
Nearly All Sections
BIG ISLAND ONCE MORE
HAS SUFFERED MOST
WaiIuku Escapes Flood But ISL
Y and Of Maui Has Been Fair
~ Deluged With Rain

Heavy rains and high winds have oc
eas;oned some damage to the grow
ing crops of all the Islands during the
past ten days. How extensive aud Sc
fious that damage has been can
not be determi ned until mail advices
have come in from the other islands.
II is evident, however, from the wire
less messages that have been received
from the outside islands that the dam
aye has been considerable In some sec
tions, especially so on the island Of
HawQii.
Lon Hawaii, several bridges are re
ported TO have been destroyed and it
Is certain q number of plantations have
suffered severely. Unfortunately the
drought districts of last year have
been hit hard by this damage, among
these being Honokaa and Pacific Mil!
and other Hamakua plantations. Kau
has also been hit but there has been nc
definite advices as to damage there as
vet. Hflo and North Hilo have suffer
ed from the rams, as we'll
Storm On Maui
On Maui the rains were severe
Charles T. Bailey, territorial hydro
prapher, who has just returned from
ten day field trip to Maui, says tho
island has been de!uged with rains.
At Keanae the average daily rair
for last week was sos inches, while al
Waikamoi q total of Is inches Of rail-
fell in "a hours, and 90 inches fell IN
two days.
. On Wednesday grca sSorL sweP
the MOI! ntains aboIe lao Valley ant
!. probably only the fact that the rive
channel was cleared out by the prev
ious storm prevented q repetition o.
the disaster of 1916. Bridges are nov
II larRer over the stream, and there arr
fewer distractions along its course
As large an amount of wFter passed
down the valley during the period a
in the other storm, says the hydro
graphcr.
Tn the drought districts the sol
was in such condition that heavy rain
were certain to wash out badly. Thu
has been the. case, the meager report
thus far received indicate.
Much Cane Lodged
y On this island as well as the other
the high wind has done some damag
and has "lodgcd" considerable guam
THY Of cane. This will add to tn
cost of cutting. Reports from Wanna
nalo indicate that some of the can
there was buried in mud.
Cane that was growing was badl
whipped by the wind and much foliag
torn off. With cane, as with othe
vegetation, this must have an effect o
the growth.
For the past two years weather cor
ditions have been abnormal in var
Gus parts of the Islands, drought sue
eeeding deluges and downponrs folio"
ing drought. Waikiki has been one
the sufferers in this.
Certainly the recent storm has don
a damage to the crops that will noun
into the tens of thousands II not mt
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In the weekly report of the Weathe
bureau it is said that up to the sixt
such heavy rains had fallen on MAJ
and parts of Hawaii that in som
fields work had to be suspended. III
loss of time is, however, the least IN
portant Of the 'Osses for sugar is pr
ing up faster than it can be shipped an
the storehouse capacity is not too e.
tensive.