FALLS IN WAIRARAPA
POWER & COMMUNICATIONS
AFFECTED
(By Telegraph—Press
•\ssoclption.)
MASTERTON, This Day
Heavy snow and hail fell in Masterton during the night. Masterton itself is covered to a depth of from six to eight inches, and in the country there is over a foot of snow in many places, and up to eighteen inches in some localities where it snowed steadily all night. Some country roads are blocked and motor driving is dangerous. The fall is comparable to that of 1918, which was the most severe in 'he memory of local residents.
Electric power is off in many parts of the country, and telephonic com munication is also interrupted Thirty to forty lines are out of order in the country, cutting off about two hundred subscribers, mostly in the hill country. The feeding of stock is a serious croblem.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1939, Page 10
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