HEAVY FALL OF SNOW IN CANTERBURY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 244, 3 July 1918, Page 5

HEAVY FALL OF SNOW IN CANTERBURY

LAKE COLERIDGE ELECTRIC POWER CUT OFF.

On Sunday tho North Canterbury plains were covered with the first mantis of snow this winter. Oil Ihursday and Friday thcro were heavy tolls on: the back ranges, wid Mount Grey, Mount Torlesse and other peaks of less altitude wero snow-cappod on Saturday, i here was a further foil on the lulls early oil Sunday morning, and Tain sot in over the plains in tho afternoon, changing to snow at about i p.m. For nearly an hour ?now fell thickly, tho fail continuing more lig htlv for tho rest of tho evening, there being a depth of. about two itches in the Rnngiora district, at midnight. Young lambs havo begun to mako their appearance m the district, and tho snow will probably kill many of them. . As a result of the heavy snowfall the Lnko Coleridge electrical power plant was put out of action, and numy of the industrial power plants in U'nstchurch were rendered idle. The Tramways* Board is under -contract to the i.iovernmcnt. to supply 500 kilowatts when called on, and arrangements were made to bring tho board's steam plant into operation, but even though 1000 kilowatts was actually supplied »t va3 J|r sufficient to meet half of the Cit Council's load. Owing to the short supply of current there was a great demand for oth.er illuniinants.

HEAVY LOSS OF STOCK FEARED. By Telegraph— r-vess Association. Ashburton, July 1.. There was a heavy fall of snow in Ashburton county last night. JM>ports f>'im the back, country indicate falls of 17 inches at Springburn and 1inches at Methven. The fall was not so heavv in tho low-lying countiy. It is feared there will be heavy 10./ of stock on tho back country runs, where it is still snowing.