SEVERE WEATHER

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12819, 14 August 1939, Page 4

SEVERE WEATHER

HEAVY SNOWFALL SOUTHERX RANGES Yesterday was one of the mu days this winter, and heavy intervals made the condition? 11141 unpleasant. Something mutsL?? the shape of a snowfall was A 11 enced at Omanawa, Grom ‘,3 mai. ntl % Early this morning what is , ed as the record snowfall at Ohauiti. All the ranges a,??' 1 sides in the neighbourhood of u :i ” Misery and towards Otawa Hni at pamoa, were covered. Thor ’ ?a ' also a heavy coating on the r -' V5s and adjacent hills. 10 Kai^ While Mr Sid Smith, 0 f Tm,., was motoring over the Kai nu ? a ’ night from the Waikato he wii a heavy snowstorm at a.so Hakes commenced to fall' wh’i ll was ascending from the Mirl! side, and on the summit, and fa*** distance of about side of the sawmill snow lav L a road two inches deep. Tree? he paddocks were covered with ! ,>.?} coating and Mr Smith said the scene resembled the Chateau in snowstorm. Ill i Falls of hail also took place the rain, hail and snow we??? ticularly trying, for live stock. A hailstorm occurred at * ew. o’clock yesterday morning i,, light in town but much heavier in?! back country. 111