GLORIOUS SIGHT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 97, 15 July 1927, Page 1

GLORIOUS SIGHT

COUNTRY UNDER SNOW TRAVELLERS ENTHUSIASTIC HEAVIEST FALL FOR YEARS “During the 16 years I have been travelling up and down the line I have never seen anything to equal this fail of snow,” said Mr. T. P. Kearin, the guard on the Limited this morning. PASSENGERS were in ecstasies about the snow-covered countryside. It was a clear, moonlight night and the trees, hills and mountains glistened under their robe of peerless white. Miles and miles of snow-covered country, undisturbed by wind, lay silent except for the roar of the Limited. Beside the rails the snow was piled high, with only the dark track of the rails running through It. The snow country stretches from Taihape as far north as Owhango, near Taumarunui. Apparently snow fell nearly all day yesterday. Mr. W. H. Lock, a visitor from Australia, said this morning that he had never seen a sight to equal the beauty of the country under snow along the Main Trunk line. “It was magnificent,” he said. “Huge icicles hung from the trees and sparkled in the moonlight. The trees are weighted down with glistening white masses. The mountains looked as though they had been carved from white marble. I stood on the platform for a whole hour, drinking in the beauty of the glorious effects of the moonlight on the snow.” The Limited did not arrive at Auckland this morning until 10.45 o’clock. The first express did not arrive until 8 o’clock. The delay was caused by the slow running of the goods trains. At Tangiwai the snow is two feet deep on the station platform. On her way to Wellington last evening the Limited was held tip for two hours there. The weather has affected the tablet system between Waiouru and Ohakune, and pilot guards are working until the wires have been repaired.