HEAVY SNOW

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 237, 27 May 1932, Page 5

HEAVY SNOW

HIGH COUNTRY NEAR TOKAANU CLOTHED IN MANTLE OF WHITE DRIFTS SIX FEET DEEP The heaviest fall of snow experienced in the Tokaanu district since 1908j clothed the high country between the lake and National Park on W ednesday and Wednesday night. Yesterday dawned fine and clear, with a keen wind off the lake, and in the clear sunshine the white mantle on the hills stretching back to the mountains of the National Park presented a strik:ng picture. Twenty miles from Tokaanu, on the old Waiuru Road, the snow was reported: to he lying six feet deep, with exceptionally heavy drifts on the Waimarino road rising from Otuku pa.On the Napier-Taupo road, heavy snow was lying . on the TaurangaICumu hill and the Tikokara. " •* A light sprinkling also whitened the road on the higher levels between Tokaanu and Taupo, while over in the sunshine of yesterday morning,, there were lingering traces of a light fall near Wairakei on the Rotorua Road. At Oruanui the drifts were in places a foot deep. Takara Mountain, outside Taupo, had a cap of snow, an uni. nal sight at this time of year. Cars arriving in Tau#o ,,yesterday from Tokaanu still carried snow oh their hoods and on all the higher country round the lake and toward thp Park there was a white covering,