PHENOMENAL SNOWTORMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1923, Page 4

PHENOMENAL SNOWTORMS.

SVHXRY. Ann;. I". Quite recently a lar.ee area of Xotv Sottili 'Vales has tv urn an English Rppopraucm Tinier a heavy man lie of mow the like of which ha- not yet I i‘On wit noised since early this i civ •.tv. Tlie licit fall of snow ever e>:- ; eri.on . :l hr ;! e oldest rcsideni < tva< recorded in some |daee«. Ai another line-.’, hnrdeiied with the name ol flay Fawkes, n phenomenal fall covered tlie it !,(•!■:• ef the landscape to a depth ol reach three feel. Snowballing and ol her sports were freely nullify.-d in, and snow moil figured befnre many house-,. In many places skis tvi :•■■ hastily improvised and with fce v -t rapped m elongated pieces of wood • any other old thing thal would serve the purpose, youngster* nm'l .. mv. ii-ups eagerly s u.-bt anv frozen slopes ami slipped dov. n them merrily. S'une of them hiinidng to mind snow -feces iii the movies, and ski-running peculiar to snowy p pious, nttetiipio'.l characteristic feats, hut they were a 'ad failure for the mnsi part. At several pieces on tlie mountains the electric Ilyin was interfered with and tidegraphic < emm’inieution wn- delayed. Dwellings ami trees were damaged end roads were often impassable. Ti> some ■.districts heavy lies,., oi -lock Wctv suffered. Aire puller it wa~ a chilling hut nevertheless enjoyable experience for thousands of people who had never seen -nov before.