WAIKATO-THAMES VALLEY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19985, 10 July 1939, Page 12

WAIKATO-THAMES VALLEY

TE AROMA’S EXPERIENCE RITTER < 'o.XDITinXS COM) DIMVIXT! SHOWERS . (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this clay. Variously described as the heaviest ever recorded and the heaviest tor many years, snow tell in parts of the Waikato and Thames Valley during the week-end. Where snow was not experienced, the weather was bitterly cold, with heavy showers. Accompanying light rain, a shower of snow fell .for approximately five minutes around Waiatarua guest house on one of the highest points of the Waitakere ranges. The fall was so gentle that it barely covered the ground.

Another gentle snowfall was reported from Ponsonby by a man who saw flakes.

Ail eyes* were turned to the mountain when tire heaviest snowfall within memory was experienced in Tc Aroha. Mount To Aroha, 3000 ft., was heavily coated and a light fall to within 300 ft. of the residential area was experienced. Snowflakes were falling in town, but they quickly melted. There has never in the history of Te Aroha been a fall registered to come below the 1000 ft. mark.

The Cambridge district experienced an exceptionally cold snap, culminating in a heavy fall of snow on the Maungakawa and Maungatatauri ranges. The fall is the first this winter and the heaviest for several years. Never has snow been seen so low on the hills of the Hauraki Peninsula.