SNOWFALL IN THE SOUTH
SEKIOUS LOSSES OF LAMBS FEARED By Telegrual' --Press Awoomtimi. Christchurch, September 22, A good deal of snow fell yesterday and Inst night.in the back country. The fall nt Lake Coleridgo was about twelve ii.ches. From Ashburton the report is that the enow in the back country is having ft serious effect on. stock, Big losses are inevitable, as the tambing season is at its height, and as it is still Bnowing prospects aro decidedly bad, - The Lake Cqleridgo electric power failed late last night, both linos going and . leaving the city in darkness. One line was restored this morning. fir Telecrapli.—Press Association. Timaru, September 22. Over an inch of rain fell at Timaru and over two inches inland, and snow from Cave westward (six inches at Kimbell) between Saturday and noon today. The rain and snow will be greatly injurious to the lambing prospects, and prolong inaction in cultivation . work, which was already behind-hand through the previous rains. Heavy losses of lnmbs are anticipated from'tho cold iiiid wet.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19190923.2.18
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 307, 23 September 1919, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
172SNOWFALL IN THE SOUTH Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 307, 23 September 1919, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in