HEAVY SNOWFALL IN OTAGO
DUNEDIN, 23rd July. - The snowfall throsghout Otago has been very heavy. On the Central Otagb railway line traffic is running from one end to.Ranfurly and from the other end to Waipiata, the intervening five miles being blocked. There is four feet of snow on the open roads, and fifteen feet in the railway cuttings. It is still snowing heavily at both places, but it is hoped to re-establish through communication to-night. The main north road is impassable for wheeled traffic. In the Mount Cargill section of the Clyde district there is as much as 50 feet drift in the gullies, which will become dangerous if there is a sudden thaw.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 21, 24 July 1918, Page 8
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114HEAVY SNOWFALL IN OTAGO Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 21, 24 July 1918, Page 8
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