What looks like snow has remained in the steep gullies on the higher slopes of the Tararua Ranges since the heavy falls of last July, states a Levin correspondent. Actually, however, it is not snow, but granular ice. The heavy weight of the winter snow and the trickle of water during the day time, melting the surface snow, caused the bottom layers to granulate and become a solid mass. These masses of ice are some hundreds of feet long, and in places 30 or more feel wide, and from 10 to 12 feet deep. The white patches, which are still visible, are really incipient glaciers, and if a cold summer was experienced would remain until another winter came round.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1939, Page 7
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