SNOW IN AUCKLAND.
44 YEARS' AGO TO-DAY. £ 'T- Auckland getting a-ke<l a writer in the" "Auckland Star" 44 year< ago to-day. And well he mijrht have a-ked '1question, for on September 2. >w fell in Auckland. Severe hail storm- ; •-1 rain squalls prevailed throuelmut memorable Sunday, hail-ton-* :i- 1 : _- pigeon'-, eggs faliing in mauv part- of the city. Then, after a squall of great -ew:iiv. jj Aucklanders were astonished to see -lto - ?* falling, the Hakes floating down aa*l £ whitening tree tops and shru l - \v | exposed parts of the city. It or.lv lr.-'.-"? % a few minutes —but it snow.' all the 1 same. It may surprise many, but the wvUr | adds that within the 40 vear- pr<-\ : .-i- j- : to that "date snow liad l>een known t" 1 ' fall as far north as Mahuranji, 30 |i miles north of Auckland. f?
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 207, 2 September 1938, Page 8
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