HEAVY FALLS OF SNOW
TELEGRAPH AND POWER INTERRUPTIONS (P.A.) DUNEDIN, June 27. . After a mild winter so far in Dunedin, there was a sudden change in the week-end to conditions of unusual severity, and this morning the hills surrounding the city carried a mantle of snow. Rain and sleet showers fell during the day. and there was a strong" southwest wind. Heavy falls of snow, ranging up to as much as 18 inches, are reported from Central Otago, where telegraphic communications and power supply were interrupted in several places. LIGHT FALL AT LYTTELTON The first really cold weather of the winter set in at Lyttelton on Saturday night with a south-westerly wind and heavy rain. There was a heavy fall of .snow on Mount Herbert and the adjoining heights during the night and very light snow fell for a few minutes in the town yesterday afternoon. Very light snow fell in Christchurch shortly before 2 a.m. to-day.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23985, 28 June 1943, Page 4
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