STORM IN GISBORNE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 997, 13 June 1930, Page 16

STORM IN GISBORNE

HEAVY SNOW AND RAIN VESSELS HELD UP From Our Own Correspondent GISBORNE, Today. The Gisborne district was swept on Wednesday night by one of the most severe storms for many years. Snow fell in the high country, covering the hills many inches deep, and throughout the night hail and sleety rain fell alternately on the lowlands. The fall of rain, however, was fitful, so that that was no danger of a flood. Between Motu and Opotiki yesterday morning so much snow had fallen on the road that the first of the ser-vice-cars from Gisborne reached Toatoa an hour late, having been held uv by the state of the roads beyond Motu. Heavy seas off East Cape delayed the coastal vessels Waimea, Parera and Margaret W., so that they were unable to round the cape, and it is thought that they sheltered on the coast somewhere between Lottin Point and Hicks Bay.

TARANAKI SUFFERS

FALL ON MOUNT EGMONT From our own Corespondent NEW PLYMOUTH, Today. A strong southerly gale raged in Taranaki on Wednesday, accompanied by hail and sleet and the low temperature of 32deg. Several fences were blown down and damage was done to the booths erected at the New Plymouth Winter Show. The gale brought heavy falls of snow on Mount Egmont, the depth reaching more than two feet in places round the northern hostel.