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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 9 March 1934, Page 4

The heaviest summer fall of snow on Mt. Egniont for at least 15 years occurred on Wednesday night, and yesterday morning the peak was covered with snow to a level well below Humphries Castle in the north' and below the Manganui hut in the east, •states tile Taranaki “Herald.” The past two or three days have been very cold at the mountain and this culminated shortly after dark on Wednesday with the commencement of the fall of snow, which continued until an early hour yesterday morning. At the of)DO feet level the depth of snow was about three inches. At this time of the year this level is usually bare of snow, the prevous winter’s snow having gone by the middle of January. Usually there is no snow at this level until the end of May, when the first winter falls commence.