LOSSES FROM SNOW

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3798, 16 August 1932, Page 6

LOSSES FROM SNOW

Plight of Animals IN THE HIGH COUNTRY WAIR.ARAPA EXPERIENCE SHEEP BLENDED (T« Pram Mi** nation) -Cai-fert >n, August Id. T ie recent supWtiL„nn which visited tlie Waifarapa has proved, particularly ih 'the Maurigarakei district, to be v r ery disastrous.' So heavy was the fall that dividing fences .between i-everal properties were all covered and slieop and cattle in theirwanderings .to find feed became badly buried in the gullies. Sp»w’ drifts Id to 20 feet deep and tlie heavy frost wh'cli followed the' lad froze tho surface and made steep glissades down which sheep and cattle' slid. i

Large numbers of sheep were affected by show hlindne-a and in their: aimless ramblings many Were drawn-, ed in. tile creeks and temporary: lag' ins formed in the gullies. For Over : a week tlie snow covered -11 feed, both sheep and cattle starving to *dea th. The Wo'gilt Of th e snow brok e hug limbs off forest'trees and-this green -tuff was avidly devoured, even, tel the hark. - The position is now improving,, though further back on the hills there are still deep drifts. The losses 0f... stetak. are reported to be considerable.