GALE IN CANTERBURY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 56, 3 September 1938, Page 10

GALE IN CANTERBURY

RIVERS IN FLOOD

RAIN AND SNOW

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.

After a much-needed spell of warmer weather a southerly storiri broke over the greater'part of Canterbury in the last 48 hours. There was heavy rain and a gale with low temperatures.' It is expected that there will be considerable losses among lariibs as a result of the cold snap., A cold southerly wind and rain and snow on the higher country made conditions bad for lambing. The late sowing of crops, already delayed considerably because of the wet winter, has again 'been held up.

Rivers are running high, the Temuka being in heavy flood, and causing erosion. Fed by the Eyre River the Waimakariri rose three feet yesterday, but was falling again this morning. The Ashley River is also carrying, a good volume of water, but there.is no.danger of flooding. I ' In Christchurch the weather was showery yesterday'morning, but the rain became a steady downpour in the evening and continued throughout the night. The rain was driven by a strong south-westerly wind, and the temperature was colder. Light* snow began to fall at Arthur's Pass about 10 o'clock last night, and was lying on the ground after an hour or so. Snow also feU, on the foothills at Oxford yesterday when the weather was very boisterous. Heavy rain fell at Hanmer Springs yesterday, and there was snow on the higher country.