FIERCE SOUTHERLY
SNOW FALLS IN WAIRARAPA DISTRICT. HILLS WELL COVERED. The first real touch of winter was experienced in the Wairarapa last night, when a fierce southerly storm swept the district, bringing with it a strong, bitterly cold wind and snow. This morning, residents awoke to find the hills on either side of the valley and to the north covered in snow, which was also apparent in Masterton itself, though it was not much more than a sprinkling in the town aiea._ The Wairarapa Automobile Association reports that the Featherston-Lake Ferry Road between Oporua and the lower reaches of the Ruamahanga River is still closed by flood water and that it will be a week before the thoroughfare is open for traffic again. There are four inches of snow on the summit of the Rimutaka Hill and motorists are able to get through a track cut by Public Works employees.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1942, Page 2
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150FIERCE SOUTHERLY Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1942, Page 2
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