SEVERE WEATHER.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1918, Page 5

SEVERE WEATHER.

SNOW IN DIMERIENT PARTSHTTffiELY,OOLD CONiDITIDNS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Taumarnui, July 22. There was a. whit© mantlo of «n<m here this morning half an inch in depth. The first and only previous fall known here was in 1904. Napier, July 22. ■ During the night a heavy fall of snow took place on the hills on the coast towards Wairoa. The hills round Petane and Taradale are covered. It is bitterly cold in Napier, and a slight fall of snow took place this morning, but' it won disappeared. Wellington, July 22.. Communication with the South Island is completely lost beyond Blenheim and Nelson. After a short teak in the weather, snow is again falling in the city trtiSch melts as fast as it falls. The weather is unprecedented in this respect, ag in©V is never seen in Wellington. The hills round the city bear a light covering of snow, and the ranges on the far side of the harbor are more thickly coated. ■ Pahiatna, Last Night.' There were more snowstorms on Sunday, the fall being very heavy on-tha Puketoi ranges and in the Ooonoor and Makuri districts. There was another slight fall here to-day. Auckland, XJast Night, A' fall of four inches of snow is reported from Mamaku, the highest point on the Auckland-Ratorua railway. The Pirongia and Te Aroha mountafais are also snow-covered. It is many years , since a similar event happened. In the ,■• city there is a bMterly cold wind. The rainfall during the three weeks of July was 4!3s3in, there being only two HaSnless days. ■ A RECORD SNOWSTORM. 5 SIX INCHES FAUL W\ CORIISaji » QHrjRJOIHi. Christchurch, Last NighE To-night all train services weie re« ported to be again normal, except on iha Little River line, where there is a washout which will take two or three days to repair. In the city the tram service is approaching normal to-night, but the Cashmere Hills section is still unworkable; in fact, many of the Cashmere Hills .residents, have been completely snowbound since yesterday morning, both i Vehicular and foot locomotion being impossible. . The Springfield district, which suffered heavily in the visitation of a fortnight ago, escaped this time without any snow. : The oldest inhabitant cannot recall a time when the city was visited by such •.: a snowstorm as it experienced yesterday and, to-day- In all probability the ' Snowy visitation of 1318 will become historic as the great flood of 1868. The nearest approach to the present storm was probably that of ISBI, but it is admitted that that was a mild affair compared with the present all-embracing fall. .This afternoon was fine, with a .••lear «ky, and the sun shone out for hj, few minutes. It must be some days, however, before all the snow finally disappears, Wellington, Last Night. The Telegraph Department has received information to-day that 6in of snow fell in Ohristchureh, and when th* last wire broke it was still generally, Later, communication was restored with Christchurch, and one wir~ is working. ).