HEAVY SNOWFALL.
LIMITED EXPRESS LATE. FROST-BOUND RAILS. For 24 hours an icy blast has been sweeping the high country, mid-island, and snow has fallen over a very wide area. It was two feet deep at Ohakune yesterday, and the National Park was covered with it. The Limited express arrived an hour late this morning from Wellington owing to frost-bound rails at Taumarunui. With a steam-heating service passengers were cozy on the express, and all the way between Taihape and Okahakura they were able to survey leagues and leagues of snow. At way-side stops some of the passoners got off and commenced snow balling, a pastime that is only occasionally available on the Main Trunk route. On the train from Wellington were a number of relief workers. During the night they detrained at a station on the way, and when last seen by the express passengers ,they were throwing snow at one another.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1932, Page 3
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