WEEK-END STORM

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12617, 30 November 1926, Page 7

WEEK-END STORM

SNOW IN THE SOUTH UNION CO.’S STEAMER DAMAGED ) KAMONA HAS BAD TIME Per Press Association. ASHBURTON, November 29. Unusually cold weather prevailed (.luring the week-end. Snow fell on Saturday on the higher country and covered the hills to the foot. About an inch fell at Mount Somers township and five or six inches a few miles up the Ashburton Gorge. TOO DANGEROUS TO TURN VESSEL HOVE TO. INVERCARGILL, November 29. The steamer Kamona, which reached Bluff from Westport on Sunday, experienced a severe buffeting in the vicinity of Puysegur Point. One of the ship’s boats was washed from the chocks" on the top deck and smashed against a water tank. The provision safe was thrown overboardi and thrown back on the deck. The steering wheel was badly damaged, and the crew’s quarters became untenable. The men had to take shelter in the engineroom. It was considered too dangerous to turn the vessel end run for

shelter, and she had to be hove-to until the weather moderated. ALONG THE EAST COAST GISBORNE, November 29. Snow has fallen on the high ranges along the East Coast, and a cold snap is impeding tho shearing operations. No losses of stock are reported. RETURNING FOR COAL AUCKLAND, November 29. The tramper Harmattan, which left Auckland on Wednesday afternoon for Newcastle, wirelessed from 160 miles north-west of Cape Maria van Diemen at midnight on Saturday that she was returning to port to replenish her bunkers.