LYTTELTON.
After a warm nor -west blow, there was a sudden change in the weather conditions at Lyttelton on Thursday evening. About 8 p.m. the wind came away with great force from the south-west and. increased to a strong gale. Tho night was a wild and wintry one, with a heavy downpour of rain and frequent squalls of hail and sleet. Yesterday morning Mount Herbert and the sula hills were thickly coated with snow tor half-way down their slopes, and tho Port Hills anil peaks behind Governor's Bay was capped with white. After a brief spell of sunshine in the morning heavy rain set in again and continued for the greater part of tho day, and the weather was bitterly cold. The gale had not attained euilicient force to delay steamers to any extont, tho ferry boat Mararoa being only an hour late. Work on the water-front was impeded by the heavy rain yesterday.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19110930.2.17.2
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14162, 30 September 1911, Page 4
Word Count
154LYTTELTON. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14162, 30 September 1911, Page 4
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in