SHEEP SNOWBOUND.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 9875, 24 July 1923, Page 5

SHEEP SNOWBOUND.

OUTLOOK SERIOUS. INVERCARGILL, July 23. Runhoklers on the higher levels in the Kingston district, where V was estimated that from between 80,000 to 100,000 sheep were snowed in, have apparently not yet succeeded m getting their sheep to the lower levels. As in a number of cases, the sheep have been snowed in for almost five weeks, the position must be extremely serious. , , . , Mr J, E. Winsloe, who returned to Invercargill on Sunday night after making two or three attempts to reach Kingston by car irom Lunrsden, stated that up till the present there has been no sign of a. thaw setting in. Even on some “of the suMny faces snow was lying to a depth of from 3ft to 4ft., and was frozen hard. The weather had been particularly frosty, and there was not sufficient strength in the sun to set up a ■thaw Many old settlers of the district had stated that the conditions were the worst experienced for very many years, and that the mortality among sheep was bound to be heavy. Farmers in the Waikaia district were in a- similar plight, and so- far as he had hcaicl, only one settler in that district had succeeded in getting his sheep down to the lower levels.