TELEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 154, 29 June 1912, Page 11

TELEGRAMS

HEAVY SNOWFALL [»T XCLZ3SAVV— 9PZCTAX. TO TM ?O«T.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The heaviest enowfall experienced for years is reported as having occui'red during the pasb week over an area of close upon. 100 miles south of Tauniartinui, both along the route of the Main Trunk line and inland on either side. Passengers by train to Auckland state that not only are the hills and mountainous country traversed by the ex prese covered with a white mantle of snow, but _in some places, .particularly on the Waimarino Plains, it lies a foot deep on the plates close to the railway tracks. Snowballing was indulged in at several stopping places en route by the passengere who made the journey on Wednesday night. "It was the only way we could keep warm," eaid one of the travellers in question. He added that he did not remember seeing so heavy a fall of snow in sack, proximity to the railway before. In many places the snow lay a foot deep. Tongariro, Ngauruhoe, and Ru&pehu ai'O covered with snow, and it ha* been the subject of remark how 'much more of the lower elopes of these* mountains than usual have been snow-clad. The lower rauges surrounding the mountains are alev covered.