CANTERBURY SNOWSTORM.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1918, Page 5

CANTERBURY SNOWSTORM.

CONDITIONS SOMEWHAT ' Chfistchurch, July 24. The city is gradually resuming its. normal wintry appearance, the thaw, aB--«isted by rain showers, having effected' clearance of the snow which, since Sunday, has lain thickly on footpath and • '.roadway alike. The efforts of the City Council workmen, with their many has-tily-improvised snow-ploughs and rakes, have resulted in most of the streets in the inner city area being negotiable fairly comfortably by all classes of' traffic, •and the pathways, along which yesterday pedestrians plodded ankle deep in slush, f are to-day, in many cases, presenting •nice more an unbroken asphalt surface, A bitterly cold, heavy rain from the south-east is falling to-night. The railway traffic authorities cannot say anything definite yet as to when communication will be restored on the Midland line to Arthur's Pass. There is no probability of the express getting ■■■' through to-morrow, and its chances of doing so on Saturday are regarded ,as . very doubtful. The Little River service Js still interrupted, and the work gang has not been able to repair the breach in the embankment on the line owning to. the washout. No effective work will be possible, it is reported, till the waters of Lake Forsy th go down. The telegraphic jenflcfeis.. practically