HEAVY SNOWSTORM

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1036, 29 July 1930, Page 10

HEAVY SNOWSTORM

LIMITED DELAYED FOR HOUR EIGHTEEN INCHES AT HOROPITO Heavy snow in the King Country and at National Park delayed the Limited tor an hour this morning. The fall is tile heaviest recorded for some time and when the express passed through Horopito snow was still failing heajvily. The whole country, for many miles along the line, is heavily coated in snow and train services early this morning were disorganised to some extent. When the Limited reached Ploropito, the country was covered to a depth of 14 inches and progress was slow. The express ran into the siding, but there was some difficulty in starting again as the line had become slippery. The engine was used as a snowplough and forged her way through the snow by backing and going forward until sufficient space was cleared to give her a good run. Unless the storm breaks today the country will bo covered to a great depth tonight and the train services will be held up more seriously.

FALLS NEAR PALMERSTON BITTERLY COLD WEATHER 2 Press Association PALMERSTON X., Today. Despite the bitterly cold weather during the week-end there was no fall of snow at Palmerston North, although There were falls on the hills in the nearby country districts. Two inches at Aokautere was the heaviest for live years. DELAYED SIX HOURS TRAIN BLOCKED BY SNOW A heavy fall of snow resulted in a train being held up for more than six hours between Erua and National Park on the Main Trunk this morning. The train, which was carrying goods only, left Ohakune at 2.50 a.m. It was supposed to have passed the spot ,where it ran into the snow-drift at 4 a.m., but it was still held up at 10 o’clock this morning. IN SUBURBS AND COUNTRY Snow lay on the streets of Rotorua yesterday morning and on the high lands around the town the mantle was yet thicker. The Whakarewarewa trig station, Ngongotaha and other hills in the vicinity were white on their cleared parts. A light fall of snow occurred at Papatoetoe yesterday afternoon. This is the first fall of snow the district has had for many years. Opotiki reports that further heavy falls of snow occured between Opotiki and Gisborne yesterday. The ranges were* thickly coated with snow. The Sun’s Morrinsville correspondent reports that six degrees of frost was recorded there this morning.