SNOWFALL
NEW YORK BURIED
HEAVIEST FOR. YEARS
(United Press Association—By Electric Tefegruph—Copyright).
(Receiver this day at 9.25. a.m.) NEW YORK. Feb. 21. The city is bifried under the heaviest snowstorm experienced for severaf years, and which promises ultimately to break records. Snow began falling shortly boforc four o’clock this morning. There was over five inches on the
c ground by ten o’clock and it is still continuing to fall at the rate of an inch every hour. The city authorities put 15,000 snow , shovels on the streets, ajso 100 railway ploughs and 2900 trucks, street brushes and scrapers. Vessels in the lmrbonr were slowed, and fire liners due early this morning were held up at sea by tbc storm.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1929, Page 5
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119SNOWFALL Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1929, Page 5
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