TELEGRAPHIC INTERRUPTION
THROUGH HEAVY SNOW FALLS. At the present time Christchurch and all districts south of that city arc cut off from telegraphic communication with tbo rest of tho Dominion, owing ,to the wires in various places having been broujght down by heavy falls of snow. Mr. W. R. Morris, Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, yesterday received the following advice by wireless from the South Island: "Unusually. heavy, fall of snow throughout Canterbury and Westland districts—six inches at Christchurch and one foot at Coalgato and Waikaire. Now snowing heavily.'' All West Coast wires beyond Darfiekl a.ro interrupted, as also are all north wires north of Ainberley. At 9 o'clock yesterday morning Mr. Morris received another wireless message as follows:— "Lines still down east of Gireymouth and south of Kaikoura." . By tho Maori, which left for Lyltelton on 'Monday night, the Post am} Telegraph Department forwarded a large number of telegrams which it was unable to transmit for tho south in the ordinary way. '
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 244, 3 July 1918, Page 5
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165TELEGRAPHIC INTERRUPTION Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 244, 3 July 1918, Page 5
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